His statement under no. 13: Citing the ḥadith of Abū Hurayrah in which the Prophet ﷺ said, “My community will come on the Day of Resurrection with faces and limbs gleaming from the traces of ablution; so whoever among you can extend his radiance, let him do so.” Reported by Aḥmad and the Two Imams.

I say: The words, “so whoever among you can extend…,” are an interpolation inserted by one of the transmitters; they are not the Prophet’s own words, as more than one ḥadith master has noted. Al-Munḏirī states in al-Targhīb 1/92 that the narration reaches us through Naʿīm ibn al-Mujmir from Abū Hurayrah, and Aḥmad— in one of his versions (2/334, 523)—explicitly declared it interpolated, saying at the end of the report:

“Naʿīm said: I do not know whether the phrase, ‘whoever can extend his radiance, let him do so,’ is from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ or from Abū Hurayrah.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in Fatḥ al-Bārī: “I have not found this clause in the narration of any of the Companions who transmitted the ḥadith—there are ten of them—nor in any chain from Abū Hurayrah except this one of Naʿīm.”

Ibn Taymiyyah used to say: “This wording cannot possibly be from him ﷺ, for the ghurra (the shining blaze) does not pertain to the hands; it is confined to the face, and extending it is impossible, for that would include part of the head and would no longer be called ghurra.” See Iʿlām al-Muwaqqiʿīn 6/316.

He then listed under “Sunnahs of Wuḍū”: “Rinsing the mouth three times, and inhaling and expelling water three times.”

I say: If he intends by this the repetition of each act three times, that is agreed upon; but if—as appears more likely—he means the very acts themselves, this is unacceptable, for it contradicts the commands contained in the ḥadiths he has just cited, which indicate that they are obligatory. Hence al-Shawkānī said in al-Sayl