17 - Chapter: The concession regarding doing that (standing while urinating)

18 - Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us, Isa ibn Yunus informed us, al-A'mash narrated to us, from Shaqiq, from Hudhayfah, who said: I was walking with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he came to a dumping place of some people, and urinated standing. I turned away from him, and he called me. I was at his heels until he finished. Then he performed ablution and wiped over his leather socks.

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Ishaq ibn Ibrahim is the one known as Ibn Rahawayh, and Isa ibn Yunus is the son of Abu Ishaq al-Sabi'i, and al-A'mash is Sulayman ibn Mihran, and Shaqiq is Ibn Salamah Abu Wa'il al-Asadi al-Kufi. It appears in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (18).

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr also narrated it in "Al-Tamhid" 11/145 via the route of Isa ibn Yunus, from him, with the addition: "in Medina"; and discussion of this may be found in it and in "Al-Fath" 1/328.

Ahmad (23241), (23246), and (23414), Muslim (273): (73), Abu Dawud (23), al-Tirmidhi (13), Ibn Majah (305), and Ibn Hibban (1425), (1427), and (1428) also narrated it through multiple routes, from al-A'mash, from him.

Ahmad (23345) also narrated it via the route of Yunus ibn Abi Ishaq, from Abu Ishaq, from Nahik al-Saluli, from Hudhayfah, from him, in abbreviated form.

It will also come in abbreviated form via the route of Shu'bah, from Sulayman al-A'mash, from him, under number (26); via the route of Shu'bah, from Mansur, from Abu Wa'il, from him, under number (27); and via the route of Shu'bah, from Sulayman al-A'mash and Mansur, from Abu Wa'il, under number (28).

Al-Sindi said: "Al-subatah" — with a damma on the unpointed sin and a lightened ba — is the place where dirt, filth, and what is swept from houses is thrown. It is also said to be the refuse heap itself. Its attribution to the people is an attribution of specific association, not of ownership, so it was permissible [for public use]. It may also imply ownership, in which case their permission would be established either explicitly or by implication. They have agreed that his custom, peace and blessings be upon him, in the case of urination was to squat, as indicated by the hadith of Aisha [which will come under number (29)]. Therefore, the standing on this occasion must have been due to a reason that necessitated it. They have suggested some reasons by way of conjecture, and Allah Most High knows best with certainty.