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336. Jābir narrated: "We were on a journey. A person with us was hit by a rock, so his head was (inflicted with a) wound. He then had a wet-dream. He asked his companions: 'Do you think that I have a concession to perform Tayammum?' They said: 'We don't think that you are allowed this concession while you are capable of using water.' So he performed Ghusl, and (due to it) died. When we returned to the Prophet ﷺ, he was informed of what occurred. He said: 'They killed him, may Allāh kill them! Why did they not ask if they did not know? Verily, the cure to ignorance is asking! It would have been sufficient for him to perform Tayammum, and to drop (some water on his head), or to tie a bandage over his wound — Mūsā (one of the narrators) was not sure which wording was correct — then to wipe over it, and wash the rest of his body.'" (Da'if)
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Commentary
"The wounded person..." In our edition, the term is: "Al-Majdūr" and it means afflicted with small pox. Ad-Dāraquṭnī, Al-Bazzār, Ibn Khuzaimah, Al-Ḥākīm, and Al-Baihaqī recorded a narration from Ibn 'Abbās, in which he commented on Allāh's saying: "But if you are ill or on a journey" (Al-Mā'idah 5:6) — saying: "When a man has wounds suffered in the cause of Allāh, or ulcerated lesions, or small pox, and he becomes sexually impure, and he fears death if he performs Ghusl, then he may perform Tayammum." The chain of narration is weak, see number 272 of Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khizaimah. Perhaps the
author intended to infer what is mentioned in that narration of Ibn 'Abbās, since he narrated a different version from him in this chapter. In some other editions, the chapter is entitled as "Al-Majruh," meaning "wounded" as we have translated it here, and most of the Sunan books have a chapter with Majruh rather than Majdur.
