وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَنْظَلَةَ غَسِيلِ الْمَلَائِكَةِ
قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «دِرْهَمُ رِبًا يَأْكُلُهُ الرَّجُلُ وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَشَدُّ مِنْ سِتَّةٍ وَثَلَاثِينَ زِنْيَةً»
Abdallah, son of Hanzala who was washed by the angels*, reported God’s Messenger as saying, “A dirham which a man knowingly receives in usury is more serious than thirty-six acts of fornication”. Ahmad and Daraqutni transmitted it. * Hanzala was killed at the battle of Uhud. The dead were buried without being washed, and as Hanzala is reputed to have been in a state of ceremonial impurity at the time, his family were anxious; so the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) told them he had been washed by the angels.
He is commonly called al-ghasil. In the text above the phrase used is ghasil al-malaika. Baihaqi transmitted in Shuab al-iman on the authority of Ibn Abbas with the addition that he said, “Hell is more fitting for him whose flesh is nourished by what is unlawful.”