doing so three times. Another wording states: “He rinsed his mouth and expelled water from his nose (1) three times, using three handfuls of water” (2). This is the most authentic report concerning rinsing the mouth and drawing water into the nose.
Separating rinsing the mouth from drawing water into the nose is not reported in any authentic hadith whatsoever (3). However, in the hadith narrated by Talhah ibn Musarrif, from his father, from his grandfather (4), it is stated: “I saw the Prophet (5) (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) separate rinsing his mouth from drawing water into his nose (6).” Yet we do not know who (7) this Talhah, reporting from his father from his grandfather, is; nor is his grandfather known to have been a Companion.
He would draw water into his nose with his right hand and expel it with his left. He would wipe his entire head.
(1) ك: wa-stanshaqa (“and drew water into his nose”).
(2) This exact wording does not occur in the two Sahīh collections. I fear that an omission may have occurred through the copyist’s eye skipping ahead, and that the original read: “He rinsed his mouth and expelled water from his nose three times” [and in another wording: “He rinsed his mouth, drew water into his nose, and expelled it three times] with three handfuls of water.” The first wording occurs in Muslim immediately after the preceding wording. Muslim also has: “He rinsed his mouth, drew water into his nose, and expelled it using three handfuls of water.” The second wording is al-Bukhārī’s (192); he gives a similar wording at (186).
(3) This is open to question. See al-Talkhīs al-Habīr (1/134).
(4) ص adds qāla (“he said”) after this.
(5) ص: Rasūl Allāh (“the Messenger of Allah”).
(6) Recorded by Abū Dāwūd (139), al-Tabarānī (19/181), and al-Bayhaqī (1/51). After (132), Abū Dāwūd states: “Musaddad said: ‘I related it to Yahyā [al-Qattān], and he rejected it.’” He then states: “I heard Ahmad say: ‘Ibn ‘Uyayna, they claim, used to reject it, saying: “What is this: Talha, from his father, from his grandfather?!”’” It is as though he found it surprising that Talha’s grandfather should have met the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. See ‘Ilal Ibn Abī Hātim (131) and Ta‘līqat Ibn ‘Abd al-Hādī (pp. 150–151). Thus, the hadith is mursal, and its chain includes Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, who is weak.
(7) The al-Risāla edition reads wa-lākin lā yarwī illā ‘an (“but he narrates only from”), a textual corruption.