In this chapter, on the authority of Muʿādh ibn Jabal.

54 — Qutaybah narrated to us, saying: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum, from ʿUtbah ibn Ḥumayd, from ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, who said: I saw the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he performed ablution, wipe his face with the edge of his garment.

This is a gharīb ḥadīth, and its chain of transmission is weak. Rishdīn ibn Saʿd and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum al-Ifrīqī are both considered weak in ḥadīth. The ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah is not sound, and nothing is authentically established from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding this matter.

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It was also narrated by al-Dāraquṭnī 1/110 via the route of Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, and by al-Ḥākim 1/154, and al-Bayhaqī 1/185 via the route of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, both from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, with this chain of transmission. Al-Dāraquṭnī, al-Bayhaqī, and others said: Abū Muʿādh is Sulaymān ibn Arqam, and he is abandoned (matrūk). Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim erred when he said he was al-Fuḍayl ibn Maysarah, and al-Dhahabī affirmed this without challenging it. The scholar Aḥmad Shākir followed them both in this, thus declaring its chain sound!

Note: In copies (S) and (L), as well as in the printed edition and the copy of Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, the statement of Abū ʿĪsā regarding the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah appears immediately after this ḥadīth, and we have placed it after the following ḥadīth of Muʿādh, as in copies (A), (B), (D), and (Ẓ).

(1) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of Rishdīn ibn Saʿd and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād, as the author, may Allah have mercy on him, stated. It was also narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ (4194), and al-Bayhaqī 1/236, via the route of Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, with this chain. He said: Its chain is not strong.