Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 4
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 4

Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)

وَ بِهَذَا اَلْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ أَنَّ أُنَاساً يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ اَلْأُذُنَيْنِ مِنَ اَلْوَجْهِ وَظَهْرَهُمَا مِنَ اَلرَّأْسِ فَقَالَ« لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِمَا غَسْلٌ وَ لاَ مَسْحٌ».
Through the same chain of narrators, from Muhammad bin Ya‘qub, from Muhammad bin Yahya, from Ahmad bin Muhammad, from Ibn Faddal, from Ibn Bukayr, from Zurarah, who said: I asked Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام about some people who say that the ears are part of the face, while their back is part of the head." Imam عليه السلام said: "There is no washing nor wiping required for them."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 58
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb