no believer despises the Arabs, nor does anyone love Thaqīf except a believer." Al-Haythamī said (10/53): "It is narrated by al-Ṭabarānī from Ibn ʿUmar, and in its chain is Sahl ibn ʿĀmir, who is weak." It will be mentioned, Allāh willing, (2029) with the wording: "O Salmān, do not despise me, lest you abandon your religion."

- "If any of you touches his private part with his hand, let him perform ablution." It is recorded by al-Nasāʾī (1/76) through the route of Shuʿbah from Maʿmar from al-Zuhrī from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr from Busrah bint Ṣafwān that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Those who critique it for a break in the chain between ʿUrwah and Busrah are refuted by what Aḥmad (6/407) and others have recorded: Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd narrated to us from Hishām, who said: My father told me that Busrah bint Ṣafwān informed him that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Whoever touches his private part should not pray until he performs ablution." I said: This isnād consists entirely of reliable narrators according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, and it is continuously narrated, making it one of the most authentic isnāds. It refutes al-Nasāʾī's statement that follows: "Hishām ibn ʿUrwah did not hear this ḥadīth from his father." I do not know how al-Nasāʾī can say this when he explicitly states that he narrated it from his father, and it is narrated from him by Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, the trustworthy, precise ḥāfiẓ. Al-Ḥākim also recorded it (1/136) through the route of Ḥammād ibn Zayd from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from ʿUrwah, in which ʿUrwah says: Busrah bint Ṣafwān told me about it. He explicitly stated that he heard it from her, and it is not contradicted by some narrations that he narrated it from Marwān on her authority, as that was initially, then ʿUrwah met Busrah, asked her, and she confirmed Marwān's narration from her, as explicitly mentioned by al-Ḥākim and others. The well-known wording of the ḥadīth is: "Whoever touches his private part, let him perform ablution," and I have documented it in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (174) and "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (196) and elsewhere. There is also supporting evidence for the wording of the chapter from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, reported as elevated: