صحيح البخاري
Bukhari
كتاب الجنائزThe Book of Al-Janaiz (Funerals)
بَابُ يُبْدَأُ بِمَيَامِنِ الْمَيِّتِ:Chapter. To start from the right side while giving a bath to a dead body.
Hadith 1255
اُردوEn
فَقَالَ أَيُّوبُ : وَحَدَّثَتْنِي حَفْصَةُ بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ مُحَمَّدٍ ، وَكَانَ فِي حَدِيثِ حَفْصَةَ اغْسِلْنَهَا وِتْرًا وَكَانَ فِيهِ ثَلَاثًا , أَوْ خَمْسًا , أَوْ سَبْعًا ، وَكَانَ فِيهِ , أَنَّهُ قَالَ : ابْدَأْنَ بِمَيَامِنِهَا وَمَوَاضِعِ الْوُضُوءِ مِنْهَا " ، وَكَانَ فِيهِ أَنَّ أُمَّ عَطِيَّةَ , قَالَتْ : وَمَشَطْنَاهَا ثَلَاثَةَ قُرُونٍ .
Ayyub said that Hafsah also narrated to me like the hadith of Muhammad bin Sirin. In Hafsah’s narration, it was mentioned to wash an odd number of times, and there was this detail: three, five, or seven times (to wash), and it was also stated to begin washing the body from the right side and from the limbs of ablution. It was also in this narration that Umm ‘Atiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: We combed her hair and divided it into three braids.
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ ، عَنْ حَفْصَةَ بِنْتِ سِيرِينَ ، عَنْ أُمِّ عَطِيَّةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا , قَالَتْ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي غَسْلِ ابْنَتِهِ : " ابْدَأْنَ بِمَيَامِنِهَا وَمَوَاضِعِ الْوُضُوءِ مِنْهَا " .
Narrated Um 'Atiyya: Allah's Apostle , concerning his (dead) daughter's bath, said, "Start with the right side, and the parts which are washed in ablution."
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Dawood Raz
Hadith Commentary:
Every good deed is legislated to be started from the right side, and several ahadith have been narrated regarding this.
Every good deed is legislated to be started from the right side, and several ahadith have been narrated regarding this.
Source: Sahih Bukhari: Commentary by Maulana Dawood Raz, Page: 1255
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
It is mentioned in the hadith that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) would begin every good deed with the right hand, and he preferred the right side.
Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) has kept the chapter heading general so that other types of ritual baths (ghusl) can be analogized to the main ritual bath.
The hadith mentions the right sides and the parts of ablution (wudu).
There is no contradiction between these two, because sometimes the right sides and the parts of ablution can be washed simultaneously; then, for those limbs which are not washed during ablution, their right side should be washed during the ritual bath.
In reality, Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) intends to refute Abu Qilabah, whose position is that when giving the ritual bath to the deceased, one should begin first with the head and then with the beard.
(Fath al-Bari: 3/168)
It is mentioned in the hadith that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) would begin every good deed with the right hand, and he preferred the right side.
Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) has kept the chapter heading general so that other types of ritual baths (ghusl) can be analogized to the main ritual bath.
The hadith mentions the right sides and the parts of ablution (wudu).
There is no contradiction between these two, because sometimes the right sides and the parts of ablution can be washed simultaneously; then, for those limbs which are not washed during ablution, their right side should be washed during the ritual bath.
In reality, Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) intends to refute Abu Qilabah, whose position is that when giving the ritual bath to the deceased, one should begin first with the head and then with the beard.
(Fath al-Bari: 3/168)
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 1255
