Abu Bakr said: I have dictated the hadith of Uthman ibn Affan, and the report of Ibn Abbas regarding wiping over the ears, their outer and inner parts.

Hazrat Humran (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that one day Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) asked for water, then he narrated the hadith regarding the method of ablution of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and said that then he washed his right foot up to both ankles three times, and washed his left foot in the same way. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that this hadith is evidence that the ankles are the two protruding bones on both sides of the foot, because if by "ankle" was meant the bone protruding on top of the foot, then the right foot would have only one ankle, not two.