Al-Qarrāb said, “He died in the year 318 AH.”
I read to Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh, from Abū Rūḥ al-Harawī, who reported: Zāhir informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū Aḥmad the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū ʿArūbah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ narrated to us; Khālid ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us; Sālim Abū al-Muhājir narrated to us, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, from Abū Hurayrah and ʿĀʾishah, that the Prophet ﷺ performed ablution, washing each limb three times (1).
286 – Ibn Ṭalāb, Abū al-Jahm Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad*
The shaykh, scholar, preacher, and trustworthy narrator: Abū al-Jahm Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalāb al-Dimashqī, later known as al-Mashqarānī, the preacher of Mashqarā.
He originally came from the village of Bayt Lehya (2), where he worked as a schoolmaster, before relocating to Mashqarā.
He would travel to Damascus and transmit hadith from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, Hishām ibn Khālid al-Azraq, ʿAlī ibn Sahl al-Ramlī, and a number of others.
(1) Its chain of transmission is hasan (reliable).
In the same chapter there is also the report from Ali stating that the Prophet performed wudu three times for each limb; it is recorded by al-Tirmidhi (no. 44), Abu Dawud (no. 116) and others, with a sahih (sound) isnad.
Muslim (no. 230) relates that Uthman performed wudu at al-Maqaʿid—a place in Madinah—and said: “Shall I not show you the ablution of the Messenger of Allah?” He then performed wudu three times for each limb.
Al-Bukhari, 1/226, gives a longer version and entitles the chapter “Performing wudu three times for each limb.”
[*] Al-Ansab, 531 b; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 5/134; al-ʿIbar, 2/175; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 6/334; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 3/232; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/281.
(2) Yaqut states that the name is pronounced with a kasra on the lam, a silent ha, then ya and alif, but the correct form is Bayt al-Ilaha.
It is a well-known village in the Ghuta of Damascus and has been celebrated in much poetry. Among these verses is that of al-Atrabulsi:
“May refreshing rain from the two bright stars water it—from al-Ghaydatayn and Hammuriyya, to Bayt Lahya, to Barza—abundant and overflowing.”
The gentilic derived from Bayt Lahya is Batlahi.
See Muʿjam al-Buldan, 1/522.