Performing Ghusl For The Friday Prayer
Darussalam · Volume 1
1. THE BOOK OF PURIFICATIONSunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 345 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 95
Source no. 345 · Volume 1 · Page 2
Sahih
صحيح
Source no. 373 · Volume 2 · Page 176
Sahih chain
(قلت: إسناده صحيح. وأخرجه ابن خزيمة وابن حبان (٢٧٧٠) في "صحيحيهما"، وقال الحاكم: "إسناده صحيح على شرط الشيخين"! ووافقه الذهبي! وقال الترمذي: "حديث حسن"، ووافقه النووي)
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345. Aws bin Aws Ath-Thaqafī narrated: "I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: 'Whoever Ghassala (washes) on Friday, and Ightasal (performs Ghusl), and strived to come early and reached (the Masjid) early, and walks, and does not ride (an animal), and sits close to the Imām, and listens intently, and does not distract (others from listening), then for every step (he takes), he will be rewarded an entire year's reward — its fasting and its praying.” (Saḥīḥ)
345 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ الْجَرْجَرَائِيُّ حُبِّي، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ، حَدَّثَنِي حَسَّانُ بْنُ عَطِيَّةَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْأَشْعَثِ الصَّنْعَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَوْسُ بْنُ أَوْسٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ غَسَّلَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَاغْتَسَلَ، ثُمَّ بَكَّرَ وَابْتَكَرَ، وَمَشَى وَلَمْ يَرْكَبْ، وَدَنَا مِنَ الْإِمَامِ فَاسْتَمَعَ وَلَمْ يَلْغُ كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ عَمَلُ سَنَةٍ أَجْرُ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا»
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There is a difference of opinion about the precise interpretation of this sentence. See nos. 349 and 350. It has been translated according to one of the more general interpretations, and Allāh knows best. After no. 496, At-Tirmidhī said: "Regarding this Hadīth, Mahmūd (one of the narrators) said: Waki' said: "Whoever performs Ghusl" refers to him; "and bathes completely" refers to his wife." It has been reported that [Abdullāh] bin Al-Mubārak said about this Hadīth: "Whoever bathes completely" and "Whoever performs Ghusl" means washes his head and performs Ghusl. Ibn Al-Mubārak is one of the narrators in no. 1087 of Ibn Mājah, as well as this narration (345) of Abū Dāwūd, while it is Waki' in no. 496 of At-Tirmidhī. These two views reported by At-Tirmidhī are the most popular. In Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhī, Al-Mubārakpūrī preferred the second view, that of Ibn Al-Mubārak, while in his notes on Ibn Mājah, As-Sindī quoted As-Suyūṭī's view, which elaborated on the first view, that of Waki'. Most of them say that "Goes early, arriving early" means at the early time for the prayer, and early for the Khutbah.