سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ وَ هُوَ يُحَدِّثُ النَّاسَ بِمَكَّةَ صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الْفَجْرَ ثُمَّ جَلَسَ مَعَ أَصْحَابِهِ حَتَّى طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَجَعَلَ يَقُومُ الرَّجُلُ بَعْدَ الرَّجُلِ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ مَعَهُ إِلَّا رَجُلَانِ أَنْصَارِيٌّ وَ ثَقَفِيٌّ فَقَالَ لَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ لَكُمَا حَاجَةً وَ تُرِيدَانِ أَنْ تَسْأَلَا عَنْهَا فَإِنْ شِئْتُمَا أَخْبَرْتُكُمَا بِحَاجَتِكُمَا قَبْلَ أَنْ تَسْأَلَانِي وَ إِنْ شِئْتُمَا فَاسْأَلَا عَنْهَا قَالَا بَلْ تُخْبِرُنَا قَبْلَ أَنْ نَسْأَلَكَ عَنْهَا فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَجْلَى لِلْعَمَى وَ أَبْعَدُ مِنَ الِارْتِيَابِ وَ أَثْبَتُ لِلْإِيمَانِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا أَخَا ثَقِيفٍ فَإِنَّكَ جِئْتَ أَنْ تَسْأَلَنِي عَنْ وُضُوئِكَ وَ صَلَاتِكَ مَا لَكَ فِي ذَلِكَ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ أَمَّا وُضُوؤُكَ فَإِنَّكَ إِذَا وَضَعْتَ يَدَكَ فِي إِنَائِكَ ثُمَّ قُلْتَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ تَنَاثَرَتْ مِنْهَا مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ فَإِذَا غَسَلْتَ وَجْهَكَ تَنَاثَرَتِ الذُّنُوبُ الَّتِي اكْتَسَبَتْهَا عَيْنَاكَ بِنَظَرِهِمَا وَ فُوكَ فَإِذَا غَسَلْتَ ذِرَاعَيْكَ تَنَاثَرَتِ الذُّنُوبُ عَنْ يَمِينِكَ وَ شِمَالِكَ فَإِذَا مَسَحْتَ رَأْسَكَ وَ قَدَمَيْكَ تَنَاثَرَتِ الذُّنُوبُ الَّتِي مَشَيْتَ إِلَيْهَا عَلَى قَدَمَيْكَ فَهَذَا لَكَ فِي وُضُوئِكَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Muhammad Bin Qays who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> saying, and he<sup>asws</sup> was narrating to the people in Makkah: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> prayed the Fajr <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>, then sat along with his<sup>saww</sup> companions until the sun emerged. So the man after the man arose until there did not remain with him<sup>saww</sup> anyone except for two man, one from the ‘Helpers’ and one from ‘Saqeef’. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said to them both: ‘I<sup>saww</sup> know that there is a need for the two of you that you would like to ask about it. So if you two want I<sup>saww</sup> can inform both of you before you even ask me<sup>saww</sup>, and if you want you can both ask me yourselves about it’. They both said, ‘But, inform us before we ask you about it, for that is more clarifying for the blindness, and more remote from the doubts, and more affirming for the faith’. Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘As for you, O brother of Saqeef, so you came over to ask me<sup>saww</sup> about your Ablution <span class="iTxt">(Wudhu)</span> and your <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>, what there is for you regarding that from the goodness. As for your Ablution <span class="iTxt">(Wudhu)</span>, so you, when you place your hand into your container, then you say, ‘In the Name of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’, there scatter from it what you accumulated from the sins. So when you wash your face, the sins which your eyes had accumulated with their looks, scatter away from you and are lost. So when you wash your arms, the sins which your right hand and your left hand had accumulated, scatter away from you. So when you wipe your head and your feet, the sins which you walked towards upon your feet scatter away from you. So this is for you from your Ablution <span class="iTxt">(Wudhu)</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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