Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)

The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, narrated to me from Abu Al-Qasim Ja‘far bin Muhammad, from Muhammad bin Ya‘qub, from Muhammad bin Al-Husayn and others, from Sahl bin Ziyad, from Ali bin Al-Hakam, from Al-Haytham bin ‘Urwah Al-Tamimi, who said: I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام about the saying of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted: 'Wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows' (Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:6). Imam عليه السلام said: 'This is not its correct revelation. Rather, it is: Wash your faces and your hands from the elbows.' (Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:6) Then Imam عليه السلام passed his hand from his elbow to his fingertips."