6 – Her words, “then he performed ablution just as for the prayer … then he washed the rest of his body,” indicate that washing the limbs of ablution removes both major and minor states of ritual impurity, for the single cause that makes it obligatory to wash these limbs after janābah is the same cause that requires their washing to lift minor impurity.

7 – “The rest of the body” means whatever remains of it.

Hadith Three

Maymunah bint al-Hārith, the Prophet’s ﷺ wife, narrated: “I placed water before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for the ghusl after janābah. He poured it with his right hand over his left two or three times, then washed his private part, then wiped his hand on the ground or against the wall two or three times. He rinsed his mouth and inhaled water into his nose, washed his face and his forearms, then poured water over his head, after which he washed the remainder of his body. He then stepped aside and washed his feet. I brought him a cloth, but he did not want it; instead he shook the water off with his hands.”

Unfamiliar wording

1 – “He poured the vessel” (akfāʾa al-ināʾ): to tip it so that its contents flow out. Kafaʾahu likewise means “to tilt it.” The hadith clearly conveys the sense of tilting, which matches al-Bukhārī’s wording “kafāʾa.” Some have denied that akfāʾa can mean “to overturn.”

2 – “He struck his hand on the ground or the wall”: meaning he wiped his hand on either of them to remove the stickiness that remains after cleaning the private parts.

3 – “Pouring water” (ifāḍah): letting it flow over something so that it runs down.

4 – “He did not want it” (fa-lam yurid-hā): with ḍammah on the yāʾ, kasrah on the rāʾ and sukūn on the dāl, derived from irādah (to want), not from radd (to reject), as some have mistakenly assumed.

Lessons derived from the hadith

This narration is similar to the previous one, and its benefits may be summarised as follows.