Sahih Muslim, 252
sahihAbu Huraira reported:
The Messenger (ﷺ) said: Were it not that I might over-burden the believers-and in the hadith transmitted by Zuhair" people" -I would have ordered them to use toothstick at every time of prayer.
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَعَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ، وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ
لَوْلاَ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ - وَفِي حَدِيثِ زُهَيْرٍ عَلَى أُمَّتِي - لأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ
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Isnad
7 transmitters- 1Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
- 2'Amr bin Muhammad bin Bukayr (al-Naqid)al-Baghdad,al-Raqqa · d. 232 AH
- 3Zuhayr bin HarbNisa'/Baghdad · d. 234 AH/848 CE
- 4Sufyan bin 'UyaynahKufa/Makkah · d. 196 AH
- 5Abu al-ZanadMedina · d. 130 AH or after
- 6'Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'arajMedina · d. 117 AH
- 7Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 2, Hadith 56
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 2, Hadith 487 (deprecated numbering scheme)