in his book "Tartīb al-Thiqāt." It may have been omitted during his arrangement of it, or it was not in his copy of "al-Thiqāt." And Allāh knows best. This; and there are many authentic ḥadīths with similar meanings. The closest to it is what Ibn ʿAjlān narrated from al-Qaʿqāʿ, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) used to command us, when one of us went to relieve himself, to use three stones. It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/73) and others, and its isnād is good. It was authenticated by al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (1/356), and it is in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (6). It has other supporting narrations found in "al-Irwāʾ" (1/84/44) and "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (numbers 31 and 32). (Benefit): It is mentioned in "al-Nihāyah": "The term (al-ghāʾiṭ) is frequently mentioned in ḥadīth to mean both the event and the place." Al-Baghawī said in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (1/357): "The original meaning of al-ghāʾiṭ is a low-lying part of the land, which they would frequent for their needs, and they used it as a euphemism for the act itself, to avoid mentioning it by its specific name." (Note): I had previously classified the ḥadīth of the chapter in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" under number (2461) from the route of Abū al-Zubayr with an interrupted chain, and the ḥadīth of al-Sāʾib according to al-Ṭabarānī, before "al-Awsaṭ" of al-Ṭabarānī was printed. When I reviewed it, along with the other routes and supporting narrations, I hastened to classify it here and transfer it from "Ḍaʿīf al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" to "Ṣaḥīḥ," fulfilling the scholarly trust and clearing my conscience, regardless of what critics may say or fabricators may invent