That he entered upon Umm Ḥabībah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, who was his maternal aunt — and she gave him sawīq to drink. Then she said to him: "Perform ablution, O son of my sister, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Perform ablution from what the fire has touched.'" (1)

181 — Al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd informed us, saying: Isḥāq ibn Bakr ibn Muḍar narrated to us, saying: Bakr ibn Muḍar narrated to me, from Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah, from Bakr ibn Sawādah, from Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Akhnas
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= Also narrated by Aḥmad (21598), (21642), (21647), (21660), and (21669), and Muslim (351) via multiple chains from al-Zuhrī, with this chain of transmission. Al-Zuhrī also narrated it from Khārijah, as found in al-Musnad (21655).

This ḥadīth has already preceded with the chain of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (the compiler's shaykh) to al-Zuhrī, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qāriẓ, from Abū Hurayrah, as number (172). And it will follow afterward with the chain of Hishām, the compiler's shaykh, also to al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Akhnas ibn Sharīq, from Umm Ḥabībah, in a similar manner. These are well-preserved chains from al-Zuhrī, authentic from him, as al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in al-ʿIlal 4/239.

(1) Its marfūʿ portion is ṣaḥīḥ bi-ghayrihī (authentic due to corroborating evidence), and this chain is acceptable for ḥasan (good) status. Abū Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Akhnas — although only Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated from him and no authentication of him is known from anyone other than Ibn Ḥibbān — he is the son of Umm Ḥabībah's sister. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy, except Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik — who is al-Yazanī — and he is ṣadūq (truthful). Ibn Ḥarb: he is Muḥammad, and al-Zubaydī: he is Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd. The ḥadīth is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā as number (184).

Also narrated by Aḥmad (26779), (26783), (26784), (26785), and (27399) via multiple chains from al-Zuhrī, with it.

Also narrated by Aḥmad (26773) and (26782), and Abū Dāwūd (195) via the chain of Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, with it.

See also the preceding ḥadīths before it.

Al-Sawīq: a food made from crushed wheat and barley.