- "When the two circumcised parts meet, he performed ghusl." It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/123 and 227) and al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/33) from Ḥammād ibn Salamah who said: Thābit al-Bunānī narrated to us from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rabāḥ from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Nuʿmān from ʿĀʾishah who said: and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This isnād [chain of narration] has narrators who are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim, except for ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Nuʿmān, whom only Ibn Ḥibbān has deemed reliable. And Ḥammād ibn Salamah has another isnād, narrated from ʿAlī ibn Zayd from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib from her with it. Al-Ṭaḥāwī also recorded it. And ʿAlī ibn Zayd - who is Ibn Judʿān - is weak. But there is another route, as Bishr ibn Bakr said: al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim narrated to me from his father from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā): "She was asked about a man who engages in intercourse but does not ejaculate? She said: I did it with the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and we performed ghusl from it together." Al-Ṭaḥāwī recorded it. I say: Its isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]. And Muslim recorded it (1/187) through another route from her similar to it, and it contains a questionable phrase for which I included it in "al-Ḍaʿīfah." In summary, the ḥadīth through this route is undoubtedly authentic, and it is a practical application by him (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) of his well-known saying also narrated by her: "When he sits between her four parts and the circumcised part touches the circumcised part, ghusl becomes obligatory." Muslim and others recorded it, and it is included in "al-Irwāʾ" (79 and 127).