1 - Chapter: Mention of Bi’r Buda‘ah (the Well of Buda‘ah)

326 - Harun ibn ‘Abdullah narrated to us, saying: Abu Usamah narrated to us, saying: Al-Walid ibn Kathir narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Ka‘b al-Quradhi narrated to us, from ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Rafi‘, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, shall we perform ablution from the well of Buda‘ah — and it is a well into which the flesh of dogs, menstrual rags, and filth are thrown?” He said: “Water is pure; nothing makes it impure.”

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(1) In (H): “anatawadda’,” and in its margin: “a-tatawadda’.”
(2) A sound hadith by virtue of its multiple chains and supporting witnesses; ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman — and it is also said: ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abdullah, and it is also said: ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abdullah — ibn Rafi‘; a number of narrators reported from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in *Al-Thiqat* 5/71. Ibn al-Qattan said in *Bayan al-Wahm* 3/309: “His condition and identity are unknown.” Ibn Mandah declared him unknown, and Ibn Hajar said in *Al-Taqrib*: “Concealed.” The rest of his narrators are trustworthy; Abu Usamah is Hammad ibn Usamah.

It was also recorded by Ahmad (11257), Abu Dawud (66), and al-Tirmidhi (66) via the chain of Abu Usamah, with this isnad. Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good hadith.” Ahmad declared it sound, as al-Mizzi transmitted from him in *Tahdhib al-Kamal* 19/84 (in the biography of ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Rafi‘).

It was also recorded by Ahmad (11818) via the chain of Ibrahim ibn Sa‘d, from al-Walid ibn Kathir, from ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Salamah, from ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Rafi‘, with it.

And Muhammad ibn Ishaq narrated it from ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Salamah, from ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Rafi‘, with it, as al-Daraqutni mentioned in *Al-‘Ilal* 5/448–449, and he listed the variations of its chains, saying at 5/450: “The best of them in isnad is the hadith of al-Walid ibn Kathir from Muhammad ibn Ka‘b, and the hadith of Ibn Ishaq from ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Salamah.”

Ibn al-Qattan cited it in *Bayan al-Wahm* 5/224 from the hadith of Sahl ibn Sa‘d, and declared its chain sound. See the continuation of the discussion on the hadith and its chains in the commentary on the hadith of *Al-Musnad* (11119), and see what follows it.

Al-Sindi said: His statement “a-tatawadda’ ” is in the form of address to a second person or of a speaker including others. Al-Nawawi’s statement that the second is a corruption was refuted by al-Wali al-‘Iraqi in his *Sharh Abi Dawud*, as al-Suyuti transmitted in his gloss on Abu Dawud. “Buda‘ah” is with a damma on the ba’ and a damma on the dotted dad, and a kasra on the dad is also permitted, and it has been related with an undotted sad. “Al-hiyad” — with a kasra on the ha’ and a fatha on the ya’ — are the rags with which the blood of menstruation is wiped. It is said: the constant habit of the people =