Abu Sa’ib, the freed slave of Hisham bin Zuhrah, told him that he heard Abu Hurairah say: “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘No one of you should bathe in standing water when he is sexually impure.’” He (Abu Sa’ib) said: “What should he do, O Abu Hurairah?” He said: “Let him take some out (and […]
Her mother Umm Salamah said: “Umm Sulaim came to the Prophet and asked him about a woman who sees in her dream something like a man sees. He said: ‘Yes, if she sees water (discharge), let her take a bath.’ I said: ‘You have embarrassed the women. Do women experience wet dreams?’ The Prophet said: […]
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘No one who is sexually impure and no woman who is menstruating should recite Qur’an.’”
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘No one who is sexually impure and no woman who is menstruating should recite anything of the Qur’an.’”
“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Under every hair there is the state of sexual impurity, so wash the hair and cleanse the skin.’”
The Prophet said: “The five daily prayers, from one Friday to the next, and fulfilling the trust are all expiation for whatever (sins) come between them.” I said: “What is fulfilling the trust?” He said: Having a bath to cleanse oneself from sexual impurity, for under every hair there is the state of sexual impurity.”
The Prophet said: “Whoever leaves an area the size of a hair on his body and does not cleanse it from sexual impurity, such and such will be done to him in the Fire.” ‘Ali said: “Because of that I am hostile towards my hair,” and he used to shave his head.
“I put out water for the Messenger of Allah for a bath, and he had a bath after going to all of his wives in one night.”
The Prophet went around to all of his wives in one night, and he had a bath after each one of them. It was said to him: “O Messenger of Allah, why not make it one bath?” He said: “This is purer, better and cleaner.”
“If the Messenger of Allah wanted to eat when he was sexually impure, he would perform ablution.”