Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 4
وَ أَخْبَرَنِي اَلشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ أَبَانٍ عَنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَحَدُهُمَا عَلَيْهِمَا اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ بَدَأَ بِيَدِهِ قَبْلَ وَجْهِهِ وَ بِرِجْلَيْهِ قَبْلَ يَدَيْهِ قَالَ« يَبْدَأُ بِمَا بَدَأَ اَللَّهُ بِهِ وَ لْيُعِدْ مَا كَانَ».
The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, informed me from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from his father, from al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan ibn Aban, from al-Husayn ibn Saʿid, from Muhammad ibn Abi ʿUmayr, from Ibn Udhaynah, from Zurarah, who said:
One of the Imams عليه السلام was asked about a man who started (ablution) with his hands before his face and with his feet before his hands. Imam عليه السلام replied: "He should begin with what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has begun with, and he should repeat (ablution) from what he has done."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 101
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 56