43 – It is narrated from al-Mughīra ibn Shuʿba (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed wuḍūʾ and wiped over the forelock of his head, over the turban, and over his leather socks. Recorded by Muslim (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• binaṣiyatihi: the nāṣiya (forelock); the hairline or the front part of the head when the hair is long; plural nawāṣī and nāṣiyāt.
• al-ʿimāma: a cloth wrapped and wound around the head; discussion of it will come, Allah willing, in the chapter on the leather socks.
• al-khuffān: dual of khuff; footwear worn on both feet, normally made of leather.

Points derived from the ḥadīth
1 – The report mentions wiping the forelock and the turban. Some scholars held that both must be wiped together. The stronger view, however, is that the combination lies only in the wording of the narration: he (peace and blessings be upon him) wiped the turban on its own, and he wiped the head on its own, beginning with the forelock. Because the narrator mentioned them together, some scholars assumed the two were wiped together in practice as well.
2 – There is no sound report showing that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ever limited himself to wiping only part of his head. Ibn al-Qayyim said: “Nothing authentic indicates that he ever confined himself to wiping just a portion of the head at all.”
3 – The ḥadīth before us includes the wiping of the forelock and the turban. As noted, the preponderant opinion is that their combination is confined to the wording of the narration, not to the act of wiping itself: if he (peace and blessings be upon him) wiped over the turban, he confined himself to it, and if he wiped over the head, he wiped