Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that in the blessed time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), a man was wounded and then had a wet dream. He took a ritual bath and died. When this news reached the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They killed him, may Allah destroy them! Was not the cure for ignorance to ask?" Bishr bin Bakr is trustworthy and reliable, and this hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), a man was wounded and then had a wet dream. He was ordered to take a ritual bath; he bathed and died. When this news reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They killed him, may Allah destroy them! Was not the cure for ignorance to ask?" Then it reached us that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about this, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If only he had washed his body and left his head, where the wound was."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) a man was wounded, then he became ritually impure (janabah). He asked for a ruling and was ordered to take a ritual bath (ghusl). He took the bath and died. News of this reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They killed him, may Allah destroy them! Was not the cure for ignorance to ask?!" Ata says: It reached me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked after that, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Had he washed his body and left the place where the wound was, that would have sufficed him."

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that two men set out on a journey. The time of prayer came and they had no water with them, so they performed dry ablution (tayammum) with clean earth and prayed. Then they found water while the time was still in. One of them repeated the ablution and the prayer, while the other did not. Then they came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him what had happened. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the one who had not repeated: "You acted according to the Sunnah, and your prayer suffices you." And he said to the one who had performed ablution and repeated: "For you there is a double reward." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim, because Abdullah bin Nafi' is reliable (thiqah) and he narrated this chain from al-Layth as connected, whereas others narrated it as mursal.

A similar narration is reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tayammum is with two strikes: one strike for the face and one strike for the two hands up to the elbows." The two Shaykhs agreed on the narration of Ibn Abza concerning tayammum, but they did not record it with these words. Ali bin Zabyan, who narrated it as connected, is truthful (saduq), whereas others narrated it as mawquf; but my principle is that the connected narration of a reliable narrator is what counts.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: We performed tayammum with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). We struck our hands on clean earth, then shook off our hands and wiped our faces with them. Then we struck the clean earth a second time, shook off our hands, and with them wiped from the elbows to the palms, over where the hair grows, the outer and inner sides. This hadith is explanatory (mufassar). I have mentioned it as a supporting narration (shahid) because, although Sulayman bin Arqam is not on the condition of this book, we have made it our condition to take narrations like his among the supporting narrations.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said concerning tayammum: "There are two strikes: one for the face and one for the two hands up to the elbows." This narration has also been mentioned as a supporting narration (shahid).

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that a man came and said: "I became ritually impure (janabah) and rolled about in the dust." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Strike (like this)." Then he struck the ground with both his hands and wiped his face, then struck with his hands again and wiped his two arms up to the elbows.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tayammum is one strike for the face and one strike for the two hands up to the elbows."