Purification & Wudu

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The key to prayer is purification; its beginning is takbir and its end is taslim.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

AbuGhutayf al-Hudhali reported: I was in the company of Ibn Umar. When the call was made for the noon (zuhr) prayer, he performed ablution and said the prayer. When the call for the afternoon ('asr) prayer was made, he again...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Prophet (ﷺ), was asked about water (in desert country) and what is frequented by animals and wild beasts. He replied: When there is enough water to fill two pitchers, it bears no impurity.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Messenger of Allaah (sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam) was asked about water in desert. He then narrated a similar tradition (as mentioned above).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Apostle of Allaah ( sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam ) said: When there is enough water to fill two pitchers, it does not become impure. Abu Dawud said : Hammad b. Zaid has narrated this tradition on the authority...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The people asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Can we perform ablution out of the well of Buda'ah, which is a well into which menstrual clothes, dead dogs and stinking things were thrown? He replied: Water is pure and is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ): Water is brought for you from the well of Buda'ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown. The Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

One of the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) took a bath from a large bowl. The Prophet (ﷺ) wanted to perform ablution or take from the water left over. She said to him: O Prophet of Allah, verily I was...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Prophet ( sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam ) said : None amongst you should urinate in stagnant water , and then wash in it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: None amongst you should urinate in standing water, then wash in it after sexual defilement.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Prophet (sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: The purification of the utensil belonging to any one of you, after it has been licked by a dog, consists of washing it seven times, using sand in the first instance. Abu...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

"If the cat licks (a utensil), it should be washed once."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Prophet (sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying : When a dog licks a (thing contained in a) utensil you must wash it seven times, using earth (sand) for the seventh time. Abu Dawud said : This tradition has...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The Messenger of Allaah (sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam) ordered the killing of the dogs, and then said: Why are they (people) after them (dogs)? and then granted permission (to keep) for hunting and for (the security) of the herd,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

Kabshah, daughter of Ka'b ibn Malik and wife of Ibn AbuQatadah, reported: AbuQatadah visited (me) and I poured out water for him for ablution. A cat came and drank some of it and he tilted the vessel for it until...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

Dawud ibn Salih ibn Dinar at-Tammar quoted his mother as saying that her mistress sent her with some pudding (harisah) to Aisha who was offering prayer. She made a sign to me to place it down. A cat came and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

I and the Messenger of Allaah ( sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam ) took a bath from one vessel while we were sexually defiled.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

My hands and the hands of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) alternated into one vessel while we performed ablution.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

The males and females during the time of the Apostle of Allaah ( sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam ) used to perform the ablution from one vessel together. The wordings "from one vessel" occur in the version of Musaddad.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

We (men) and women during the life-time of the Apostle of Allaah ( sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam) used to perform ablution from one vessel. We all put our hands in it.