25 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) reported: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to wash the semen, then go out to the prayer wearing that same garment, and I could still see the trace of the washing.” Agreed upon. Muslim adds: “I would rub it off the garment of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he would pray in it.” In another wording of his: “When it was dry I would scrape it off his garment with my fingernail.” (1)

Vocabulary of the ḥadith:
– manī (semen): a thick white fluid in which the sperm cells swim, produced by the secretions of the testicles.
– afrukhuhu: with ḍamma on the rāʾ; al-fark means rubbing or scraping. One says, “He fark the garment,” i.e., he rubbed it until whatever clung to it disintegrated.
– farkan: a verbal noun used to affirm the actuality of an action and deny any figurative sense. Al-Naḥḥās stated: the grammarians unanimously agree that when a verb is confirmed by its verbal noun, it cannot be taken figuratively.
– bi-ẓufrī: with ḍamma on the ẓāʾ and sukūn on the fāʾ; the horny substance at the tips of the fingers. Plurals: aẓāfir, aẓfār, aẓāfīr.
– athar al-ghasl: with fatḥa on both the hamzah and the thāʾ; al-athar is the residual trace of something.