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Bayhaqi 654 — Touching the testicles

وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، ثنا عَلِيٌّ، ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، ثنا خَلَفُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَبِي يَقُولُ: " إِذَا مَسَّ رِفْغَهُ أَوْ أُنْثَيَيْهِ أَوْ فَرْجَهُ فَلَا يُصَلِّي حَتَّى يَتَوَضَّأَ ". وَرُوِيَ ذَلِكَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ مِنْ وَجْهٍ آخَرَ مُدْرَجًا فِي الْحَدِيثِ وَهُوَ وَهْمٌ ⦗٢١٧⦘ وَالصَّوَابُ أَنَّهُ مِنْ قَوْلِ عُرْوَةَ: " وَالْقِيَاسُ أَنْ لَا وُضُوءَ فِي الْمَسِّ وَإِنَّمَا اتَّبَعْنَا السُّنَّةَ فِي إِيجَابِهِ بِمَسِّ الْفَرْجِ فَلَا يَجِبُ بِغَيْرِهِ ".
The father of Hisham bin Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him) used to say: When a person touches his groin, or his testicles, or his private part, he should not pray until he performs ablution.
(b) Through another chain, a version with this inserted into the hadith (mudraj) is reported from Hisham bin Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him); this is an error by some narrator, and the correct position is that it is the saying of Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him).
(c) Analogy requires that there be no ablution because of touching; we have only followed the Sunnah in making ablution obligatory for touching the private part, so it is not obligatory for anything else.
Hadith Reference السنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 654
Hadith Grading محدثین: صحيح
Hadith Takhrij «صحيح۔ أخرجه الدار قطني 1/148»