Al-Kafi 3933

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Zurara and Bukeyr, (It has been narrated) both having asked Abu Ja’far^asws about the Ablution <span class="iTxt">(Wudhu)</span> of Rasool-Allah^saww. So he^asws called for a tray, or bucket wherein was water. So he^asws immersed his^asws right hand in it and scooped with it a scoop (of water) and poured it upon his^asws face, and he^asws washed his^asws face with it. Then he^asws immersed his^asws left palm and scooped with it a scoop (of water) and emptied it upon the right arm, washing his^asws arm from the elbow up to the wrist, nor returning it back to the elbow (one-way motion). Then he^asws immersed his^asws right hand and emptied with it upon his^asws left arm from the elbow, and did with it similar to what he^asws did with the right hand. Then he^asws wiped his^asws heard and his^asws feet with the remnant of (the water in) his^asws plam, nor renewing for these both, the new water’. Then he (the narrator) said: ‘And he^asws did not enter his^asws fingers underneath the slipper-straps. Then he^asws said: ‘Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:5#h6"><a href="/books/quran:5#h6">[5:6]</a></a> O you who believe! When you rise up for Prayer, wash your faces and your hands</span>, therefore it is not for him that he should leave anything from his face except that he washes it, and Commanded with the washing of the hands up to the elbow, therefore it is not for him that he leaves anything from his hands up to the two elbows except that he washes it because Allah^azwj is Saying <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:5#h6"><a href="/books/quran:5#h6">[5:6]</a></a> wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows</span>. Then He^azwj Said <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:5#h6"><a href="/books/quran:5#h6">[5:6]</a></a> and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles</span>. Thus if he were to wipe with something from his head, or with something from his feet what is between the two ankles up to the sides of the toes, so it would suffice him’. He (the narrator) said: ‘We said, ‘Where are the two ankles?’ He^asws said: ‘Over here, meaning the joint bellowed the bones of the leg’. So we said, ‘This, what is it (exactly)?’ So he^asws said: ‘This is from the bone of the leg, and the ankle is below from that’. So we said, ‘May Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! So the one scoop (of water) would suffice for the face, and a scoop (each) for the arms?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes, when you exceed in it, and the two (is the most which would) would both come to be upon that, all of it’.

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