10 – Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “A Bedouin came and began to urinate in one part of the mosque. The people tried to stop him, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told them not to. When the man had finished, the Prophet ﷺ ordered that a bucketful of water be brought and it was poured over the spot.” Agreed upon.⦗1⦘

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• “In the mosque”: that is, the Prophet’s Mosque. Linguistically, masjid with a kasrah on the middle root letter is a noun of place meaning “place of prostration,” while with a fatḥah it functions as a verbal noun formed on the mīm pattern. Al-Ṣaftī added that it may also be pronounced masyid, a form cited by a number of scholars.
• “A Bedouin” (aʿrābī), with an open hamzah: a desert Arab. The attribution is made to the collective noun aʿrāb, the nomadic dwellers of the desert. The nisbah is attached to the plural, not an individual form, because the word has no true singular derived from its own letters; thus the yāʾ of the nisbah distinguishes the collective from an assumed singular.
• “A corner (ṭāʾifah)”: a portion or section, here meaning a side of the mosque. Ibn Fāris said that the root ṭā-wā-fā intrinsically denotes movement in a circle; by extension they say, “I took a ṭāʾifah of the cloth,” meaning a piece of it—this being figurative usage.
• “The people rebuked him” (fazajarahu): the verb zajara – yazjuru – zajran, on the pattern of qatala, means to restrain or prevent. The people wished to stop him from urinating in the mosque.
• “His urine”: urine is the fluid secreted by the kidneys, which collects in the bladder until it is expelled, as explained earlier.
• “A bucket (dhanūb) of water”: with a voiced dhāl; a bucket filled with water, and it is only called dhanūb when it is full.