On the authority of ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) running his fingers through his beard (1).

430 — Muḥammad ibn Abī Khālid narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, from Isrāʾīl, from ʿĀmir ibn Shaqīq al-Asadī, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿUthmān: that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) performed ablution and ran his fingers through his beard (2).

431 — Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Hishām ibn Zayd ibn Anas ibn Mālik narrated to us, Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr Abū al-Naḍr, the companion of al-Baṣrī, narrated to us, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī

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(1) Authentic due to corroborating evidence, though these two chains are weak. The first contains ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-Mukhāriq Abū Umayya, who is weak in hadith. The second—even though its narrators are trustworthy—contains a break in the chain. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said in al-Talkhīṣ 1/86: Ibn ʿUyayna did not hear it from Saʿīd, nor did Qatāda hear it from Ḥassān. We say: however, Ibn ʿUyayna explicitly stated that he heard it from Ibn Abī ʿArūba as recorded by al-Ḥākim 1/149, leaving the second defect, namely the break between Qatāda and Ḥassān. See ʿIlal al-Tirmidhī al-Kabīr 1/115–116.

It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhī (29) and (30) via the chain of Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, through these two chains.

Note: In al-Ḥākim's chain, "ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī" appears, which is an error, for that one is trustworthy. The correct reading is as found in Ibn Mājah and others: ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayya, who is Ibn Abī al-Mukhāriq.

(2) Good due to corroborating evidence. Al-Tirmidhī transmitted in his ʿIlal al-Kabīr 1/115 from al-Bukhārī his statement: The most sound thing I have regarding running the fingers through the beard is the hadith of ʿUthmān. Al-Tirmidhī said to him: They criticize this hadith. He replied: It is good. We say: ʿĀmir ibn Shaqīq is disputed; al-Bukhārī deemed his hadith good as you see, al-Nasāʾī said there is no harm in him, Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt, Ibn Maʿīn weakened him, and Abū Ḥātim said: he is not strong.

It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhī (31) via the chain of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, through this chain.

It is corroborated by the hadith of ʿĀʾisha, the Mother of the Believers, in Aḥmad (25970), and its chain is good. See the remainder of its supporting evidence there.