He came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and we brought out for him water in a vessel of brass. He performed ablution, washing his face three times, his hands twice each, then wiped his head, moving his hands forward and backward, and washed his feet.
أتى رسول الله ﷺ، فأخرجنا له ماء في تور من صفر، فتوضأ، فغسل وجهه ثلاثا، ويديه مرتين مرتين، ومسح برأسه فأقبل به وأدبر، وغسل رجليه.
Bukhari narrated it in the chapter on wudu (197) and Muslim narrated it in the chapter on purification (235:18), both from the hadith of Abdullah bin Zayd bin Asim, and the wording given here is Bukhari's. This is an abridgment of a long hadith describing the manner of the Prophet's ﷺ wudu. See the chapter on wudu.Safr means brass. And thawr, with a fatha on the tha, means something resembling a basin, and it is also said to simply mean a basin.On this subject there is a report from Zaynab bint Jahsh that she had a basin made of brass. She said, "I used to comb the head of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ over it."Ibn Majah narrated it (472). He said, Yaqub bin Humayd bin Kasib narrated to us, Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Darawardi narrated to us, from Ubaydullah bin Umar, from Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Jahsh, from his father, from Zaynab bint Jahsh, and he related the hadith.Busiri said in his Zawaid, "Its isnad is sahih, and its narrators are trustworthy." I say, it is not as he said, for Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Darawardi makes mistakes regarding the hadiths of Abdullah bin Umar Umari, the one with the fuller name, who is daif, attributing them instead to Ubaydullah bin Umar, the one with the diminutive name, who is trustworthy.Imam Ahmad said, "He sometimes reverses the hadith of Abdullah bin Umar, narrating it as if it were from Ubaydullah bin Umar." He also said, "Whatever he narrates as being from Ubaydullah bin Umar is actually from Abdullah bin Umar." Nasai said, "His narration from Ubaydullah is rejected."This is the correct view, for this hadith is actually from Abdullah bin Umar Umari. Imam Ahmad narrated it (26752) from Hammad bin Khalid, from him, from Ibrahim bin Muhammad, from his father, from Zaynab bint Jahsh, and she related something similar.Daraqutni said in Ilal (15/382), "I do not know of anyone who narrated it from Ubaydullah other than Darawardi." He then mentioned the disagreement over it, both regarding Darawardi and regarding Abdullah bin Umar Umari, and then said, "The hadith is severely confused." End.