I said: this generalization requires scrutiny, for Aḥmad and others have reported it through the route of Ibn ʿAjlān from Saʿīd from Kaʿb in a marfūʿ manner with different wordings, and some of them state: "When you perform ablution and perfect your ablution, then go intentionally to the mosque, do not interlace your fingers—I think he said—during the prayer." Thus, as you can see, this does not differ from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah in meaning; rather, it clarifies and details it. There is a disturbance in its isnād, as I have explained in the commentary on "al-Targhīb" (1/123-124). As for the isnād of this ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, al-Haythamī critiqued it in "al-Majmaʿ" (1/240) after attributing it to al-Awsaṭ by saying: "In it is ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb, and I have not seen anyone who mentioned him, and the rest of its men are the men of the ṣaḥīḥ." He said this, and there is scrutiny from two aspects: first, that Ibn ʿAjlān was not used as evidence by Muslim, but he did report from him in conjunction. The second is that ʿAtīq al-Zuhrī has been deemed trustworthy by al-Dāraqutnī and others, as mentioned previously under ḥadīth (1277), so the isnād is ḥasan. However, there is another route for the ḥadīth, authenticated by Ibn Khuzaymah (1/61/1), al-Ḥākim, and al-Dhahabī, and I have extracted it in the aforementioned source through the route of Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah from Saʿīd al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ manner, which is more complete than this.

- "When one of you uses stones for purification, let him do so an odd number of times, and when he rinses his nose, let him do so an odd number of times." It was reported by al-Ḥumaydī in "Musnad" (957) who said: Sufyān narrated to us, saying: Abū al-Zanād narrated to us from al-Aʿraj from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ manner. Through his route, it was reported by Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Mustakhraj" (1/131/2) and he said: "Muslim narrated it from Qutaybah, ʿAmr al-Nāqid, and Ibn Numayr, all from Sufyān." I said: but the second clause is not present in his version, and likewise, it was reported by al-Bukhārī and others, and I have extracted it in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (128)