106 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ and I used to bathe from a single vessel, our hands alternating in it while in a state of janābah.” Agreed upon. Ibn Ḥibbān adds: “and our hands would touch.” ⦗1⦘

Vocabulary of the ḥadith
• “Our hands alternating in it”: when two things differ (ikhtalafā) they do not coincide. The phrase means that each of them would put a hand into the vessel and scoop from it after the other—perhaps because the mouth of the vessel was narrow. In one wording of al-Bukhārī it reads: “from one vessel, a cup called al-farq,” and al-farq (with two short vowels) is the preferable pronunciation. Ibn al-Athīr states that it holds sixteen raṭl.
The clause “alternating” is in the accusative case because it functions as a circumstantial clause linked to “from a single vessel”; as is customary, clauses that follow definite nouns are circumstantial, whereas those that follow indefinite nouns serve as descriptive modifiers.
• “Taltaqī” (meet): their hands would come together while dipping and scooping from the vessel.
• “Min al-janābah”: attached to “bathe,” with min carrying a causal sense.

Lessons drawn from the ḥadith
1 – Ghusl is obligatory for janābah, for both men and women.
2 – A husband and wife bathing from the same vessel does not, by consensus, affect the water’s purity.
3 – When a junub places his or her hand into the water, the water does not lose its purifying status; it remains valid for ritual use.
4 – It is permissible for each spouse to see the other’s body and private parts, and this is included under