I said to Abū ʿAbd Allah, “I notice some moisture after completing ablution.”
He replied, “Place your hand on your lower part, draw out whatever remains until it comes down, move about a little, then distract yourself and do not let this preoccupy you, for such misgivings are from Satan.”
Mansūr ibn al-Walīd narrated to me, saying:
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad informed us, “I heard Abū ʿAbd Allah say—meaning the one who has just urinated—‘If he shakes it three times, I hope that will suffice him.’
He said: I asked Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh about istibrāʾ (ensuring the urinary passage is clear) while he was seated. He regarded istibrāʾ as just that and held that three shakes are enough; he did not require walking.”
79 – Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, Abū Yaʿqūb (Kh, M, D, S)
He is the great Imām, the Shaykh of the East, the leader of the ḥuffāẓ, Abū Yaʿqūb.
Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Qaysī informed me; al-Kindī informed us; al-Qazzāz informed us; al-Khaṭīb informed us; he said:
Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Abī al-Mughīra ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥazm narrated to me, from his cousin Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm, who said:
“He is Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Maṭar ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn …”