Abu 'Abd al-Rahman said: This is a strange hadith among the narrations of Malik, from Hisham ibn 'Urwah; no one narrated it except Ashhab.(1)

152 – Mention of the washing of the hands by one in a state of major ritual impurity (junub) before inserting them into the vessel

243 – Ahmad ibn Sulayman informed us, saying: Husayn narrated to us, from Za'idah, who said: 'Ata' ibn al-Sa'ib narrated to us, saying: Abu Salamah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman narrated to me, saying:

'A'ishah narrated to me that when the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) performed the ritual bath (ghusl) due to major impurity (janabah), a vessel was placed for him, and he would pour water over his hands before inserting them into the vessel. When he had washed his hands, he would insert his right hand into the vessel, then pour with his right hand and wash his private parts with his left hand. When he finished, he would pour with his right hand over his left and wash it,(3) then he would rinse his mouth and sniff water into his nose three times. Then he would pour over his head the equivalent of two cupped hands(5) three times, and then pour water over his entire body.(6)

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This will be followed by al-Suyuti's remarks there — otherwise, some of them had performed 'umrah first.

Al-Sindi said: His words: "Undo your hair and comb it" — he indicated by the chapter heading that what is meant by that is the ritual bath for entering the state of ihram for the Hajj, as was explicitly stated in the narration of Jabir. And Allah Most High knows best.

(1) Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar transmitted in "al-Nukat al-Ziraf" (in the margin of "al-Tuhfah" 12/197–198) from Abu Bakr al-Naysaburi (the shaykh of al-Daraqutni) that what Ashhab alone narrated was an addition to the hadith, not that he alone narrated it in its entirety... And see his full remarks.

(2) In (Q), (K), and (H): "his hand before inserting it," and what is confirmed is from (R), (M), and the margins of (K) and (H), and it is what suits what follows in the hadith.

(3) In (R), (M), and (H): "he washed them both."

(4) In (R), and above it in (M): "he poured."

(5) In (Q) and the margins of (K) and (H), and above it in (M): "his cupped hand."

(6) A sound hadith (sahih), and this chain is good (hasan); 'Ata' ibn al-Sa'ib is truthful and good in hadith, and Za'idah — who is Ibn Qudamah — heard from him before his confusion (ikhtilat), as mentioned by al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in "Huda al-Sari" p. 425. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Husayn: he is Ibn 'Ali al-Ju'fi, and Abu Salamah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman: he is Ibn 'Awf. =