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Sunan Abi Dawud 376 — Sprinkling Baby Boy Urine
A Child's Urine Splashes On A Garment
Sprinkling Baby Boy Urine: Hadith from Abu Samh
Sunan Abi Dawud : 376
Sunan Abi DawudHadith Number 376
حَدَّثَنَا مُجَاهِدُ بْنُ مُوسَى، وَعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، - الْمَعْنَى - قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنِي مُحِلُّ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو السَّمْحِ، قَالَ كُنْتُ أَخْدُمُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَكَانَ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَغْتَسِلَ قَالَ " وَلِّنِي قَفَاكَ " . فَأُوَلِّيهِ قَفَاىَ فَأَسْتُرُهُ بِهِ فَأُتِيَ بِحَسَنٍ أَوْ حُسَيْنٍ - رضى الله عنهما - فَبَالَ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ فَجِئْتُ أَغْسِلُهُ فَقَالَ " يُغْسَلُ مِنْ بَوْلِ الْجَارِيَةِ وَيُرَشُّ مِنْ بَوْلِ الْغُلاَمِ " . قَالَ عَبَّاسٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ . قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهُوَ أَبُو الزَّعْرَاءِ . قَالَ هَارُونُ بْنُ تَمِيمٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ الأَبْوَالُ كُلُّهَا سَوَاءٌ .
AbusSamh Narrated from:
I used to serve the Prophet (ﷺ). Whenever he intended to wash himself, he would say: Turn your back towards me, So I would turn my back and hide him. (Once) Hasan or Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them) was brought to him and he passed water on his chest. I came to wash it. He said: It is only the urine of a female which should be washed; the urine of a male should be sprinkled over. 'Abbas (a narrator) said: Yahya b. al-Walid narrated the tradition to us. Abu Dawud said: He (Yahya) is Abu al-Za'ra'. Harun b. Tamim said on the authority of al-Hasan: All sorts of urine are equal.
Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 376In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 376English translation : Book 1, Hadith 376
Summary of Sunan Abi Dawud Hadith 376
Abu Samh reports that he served the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. When the Prophet intended to wash himself, he asked Abu Samh to turn his back, and Abu Samh would do so and screen him. Then Hasan or Husayn was brought, and he urinated on the Prophet's chest. Abu Samh came to wash it, but the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said that the urine of a female child should be washed, while the urine of a male child should be sprinkled over. The main topic is sprinkling baby boy urine. The report also includes a note from Abu Dawud about a narrator and a statement from al-Hasan that all urine types are equal, so the text preserves both the narration and an added transmitted comment.
What we learn from this hadith
- Abu Samh served the Prophet and helped screen him during washing.
- The urine incident involved Hasan or Husayn as stated in the report.
- The Prophet's wording distinguishes washing female child urine and sprinkling male child urine.
- The narration also preserves later narrator notes and a statement from al-Hasan.
