54 - Chapter: The Remnants of a Cat's Drink

68 - Qutaybah informed us, from Malik, from Ishaq ibn 'Abdullah ibn Abi Talhah, from Humaydah bint 'Ubayd ibn Rifa'ah, from Kabshah bint Ka'b ibn Malik:

That Abu Qatadah entered upon her, then she mentioned a word meaning: "So I poured out water for his ablution, and a cat came and drank from it, and he tilted the vessel for it until it had drunk." Kabshah said: "He saw me looking at him and said, 'Are you surprised, O daughter of my brother?' I said, 'Yes.' He said: 'The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The cat is not impure; it is one of those that go around among you."'"

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Al-Nasa'i said: Abu 'Abd al-Rahman said: I did not understand "so I poured out water for his ablution" as I intended.

And it was also recorded by Ibn Hibban (1298) via the route of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-A'la, with this chain, in abbreviated form concerning washing the vessel from a dog's lapping.

And it was recorded by Muslim (280): (93) from Yahya ibn Habib al-Harithi, from Khalid ibn al-Harith, from him.

And it was recorded in full and abbreviated (with its first or second part) by Ahmad (16792), Muslim (280): (93) and (1573): (48-49), Abu Dawud (74), Ibn Majah (365), (3200), and (3201) through multiple routes, from Shu'bah, from him. In one narration of Muslim there is an addition permitting the dog used for farming.

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr said in "Al-Tamhid" 18/266: It was by this hadith that al-Hasan used to give legal rulings — that the vessel should be washed seven times, and the eighth with dust, and I know of no one else who gave rulings to that effect.

Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Talkhis al-Habir" 1/24, meaning: It is possible that the dusting with earth in the eighth washing is to be understood as applying to one who forgot to use the dust, so the intended meaning would be: "Wash seven times, one of them with dust," as in the narration of Abu Hurayrah; and if you did not dust it in one of them, then dust it in the eighth. See also "Fath al-Bari" 1/276-277.

And the hadith will appear again under numbers (336) and (337).

(1) The word "upon her" is from the margin of (K), (M), and (YH), and it appears above the word "entered" in (R), and it is indicated in (H) with a copy mark.
(2) In (K) and above the word in (M): "mentioned," and in its margin: "she mentioned," with a correctness mark over it.
(3) After it in the margin of both (R) and (M): Abu 'Abd al-Rahman said: And I did not understand "so I poured out water for his ablution" as I intended.