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Riyad as-Salihin 635

A bedouin urinated in the mosque and some people rushed to beat him up. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Leave him alone and pour a bucket of water over it. You have been sent to make…

Abu Hurayrahnarrated it
Sahihgraded sahih
2names in the chain
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وعن أبى هريرة رضي الله عنه

قال: بال أعرابى في المسجد فقام الناس إليه ليقعوا فيه، فقال النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم: «دعوه وأريقوا على بوله سجلاً من ماء، أو ذنوباً من ماء، فإنما بعثتم ميسرين ولم تبعثوا معسرين»

A bedouin urinated in the mosque and some people rushed to beat him up. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Leave him alone and pour a bucket of water over it. You have been sent to make things easy and not to make them difficult.”.

Riyad as-Salihin 635, Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, Hadith 635. 1 min read

What it means

A Bedouin man got up and started to urinate inside the Prophet’s Mosque. So, the people attacked him with their tongues, not with their hands; i.e. they shouted at him in scorn. So, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) asked them to leave him alone, and when the man finished urinating, the Prophet ordered them to pour a bucket of water over the place where he urinated, and explained to them that they were callers to facilitating matters, not to making matters difficult and thus causing people to turn away from guidance.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam an-Nawawi back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam an-NawawiCompiler, died 676 AH
  2. 2Abu HurayrahFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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