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Al-Kafi · Hadith 4

The Book of Taharat (Cleansing) · One’s having Little Water on a Journey but Is Afraid of Facing Thirst · Volume 3, book 1, chapter 42, Hadith 4

Original Arabic text

4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَتِ الأرْضُ مُبْتَلَّةً وَلَيْسَ فِيهَا تُرَابٌ وَلاَ مَاءٌ فَانْظُرْ أَجَفَّ مَوْضِعٍ تَجِدُهُ فَتَيَمَّمْ مِنْ غُبَارِهِ أَوْ شَيْ‏ءٍ مُغْبَرٍّ وَإِنْ كَانَ فِي حَالٍ لاَ تَجِدُ إِلاَّ الطِّينَ فَلاَ بَأْسَ أَنْ تَتَيَمَّمَ بِهِ.

Published English translation

4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah who has said the following: “(Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) ) has said, ‘If the ground is wet and dry soil or water is not available you must look for an area which is the most dry of the others, take Tayammum with dust thereof or something with dust on it. If you can find nothing else other than clay, then it is not harmful to take Tayammum therewith.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن مقطوع

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/182)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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