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103. It was narrated from ‘Abdullâh Aş-Şunâbihî that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: “When the believing slave performs Wudû’ and rinses his mouth, his sins come out from his mouth. When he sniffs water into his nose
and blows it out, his sins come out from his nose. When he washes his face, his sins come out from his face, even from beneath his eyelashes. When he washes his hands, his sins come out from his hands, even from beneath his fingernails. When he wipes his head, his sins come out from his head, even from his ears. When he washes his feet, his sins come out from his feet, even from beneath his toenails. Then his walking to the Masjid and his Ṣalāh will earn extra merit for him.” (Hasan)
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Commentary
1. “All his sins exit” signifies the ill effects of sins because the effects of sins permeate the limbs of the body concerned. In regard to ablution, not only the body becomes pure of discernible impurities and dirt but also the limbs of ablution become pure of the effects of sins. Consequently, the body becomes clean of physical and spiritual filthiness, which means that one becomes purified of both physical impurities and sins.
2. In this Hadīth, wiping of the head and the ears are shown to be done simultaneously. Wiping the ear is done with the same water that is taken for wiping the head (i.e., it should not be done with new water).
3. The evidence to which Imam An-Nasāʾī draws the attention of the reader in this chapter is the wording: Kharajatil khatāyā min raʾsihi hattā takhruj min udhrnihi - all his sins exit from his head to the extent that they trickle down his ears. In the same words, sins of the head have been shown leaving through the ears. This shows that the ruling for the ears is that of the head, and here I am referring to the ruling of wiping during ablution.
