Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3 — The amount of water sufficient for wudu

Yazid al-Raqashi narrates from a woman of his people that whenever she went for Hajj she would visit the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). She said: I said to her, "Show me the vessel in which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform ablution!" So she brought out that vessel and showed it, whereupon I said (seeing its capacity), "This is the makkuk of the mufti (that is, a particular measure according to the legal ruling)." Then I said, "Show me also the vessel in which he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to take the ritual bath (ghusl)?" So she brought out that vessel too and showed it, whereupon I said, "This is the qafiz of the mufti, and it is the qadah of the shuttar (that is, a large bowl in use among the brisk, active travellers of Iraq)." There is criticism regarding the chain of this hadith, because the narrator named Yazid is da'if (weak), and the circumstances of the woman mentioned in it are also not known.