Talq reported, "Amr bin As and I went to the Prophet ﷺ. He came out carrying a small shield, shielded himself behind it, and then urinated. We said to one another, 'Look at him urinating like a woman does!' He heard this and said, 'Do you not know what happened to the man from the Children of Israil? Whenever urine touched their bodies, they would cut off the affected part. He forbade them from doing so, and was punished in his grave for it.'"
انطلقت أنا وعمرو بن العاص إلى النبي ﷺ، فخرج ومعه درقة، ثم استتر بها، ثم بال، فقلنا: انظروا إليه يبول كما تبول المرأة، فسمع ذلك فقال: ألم تعلموا ما لقي صاحب بني إسرائيل؟ كانوا إذا أصابهم البول قطعوا ما أصابه البول منهم؛ فنهاهم فعذب في قبره.
Abu Dawud (22), Nasai (30), and Ibn Majah (346) all narrated it through Amash, from Zayd bin Wahb, from him with the same wording. The wording given is Abu Dawud's.Zayd bin Wahb is Juhani, Abu Sulayman Kufi. He embraced Islam during the lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ and set out to migrate to him, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away while he was still on the road, so he did not reach him. Yaqub bin Sufyan said, "There is much deficiency in his hadith." Hafiz responded to him in Taqrib, "Whoever said there is deficiency in his hadith was not correct." He died after the year eighty, and it is also said in the year ninety-six. The rest of his narrators are trustworthy.Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari (1/328), "It is a sahih hadith, graded sahih by Daraqutni and others."Abu Dawud said, "Mansur narrated from Abu Waail, from Abu Musa, regarding this hadith, saying, 'the skin of one of them,' while Asim narrated from Abu Waail, from Abu Musa, from the Prophet ﷺ, 'the body of one of them.'" He means the difference in wording.Darqah, with fatha on the dal, ra, and qaf, refers to a shield made of hide, without wood or sinew in it.As for his statement, "So we said, look at him," in the narration of Nasai and Ibn Majah it reads, "Some of the people said." This is the more apparent reading, for his statement "we said" is a report of what they said, because whoever said this could not have been a Muslim, given the disrespect it shows toward the Prophet ﷺ. And even assuming the speaker was a Muslim, it would be understood as an expression of astonishment at this act, since it was contrary to the custom of the Arabs.As for his statement, "He urinates as a woman urinates," it contains a comparison either in concealment or in sitting. Nasai understood from it the meaning of concealment, so he titled his chapter, "Urinating toward a screen behind which one conceals oneself." Abu Dawud titled his chapter, "Cleansing after urination," and Ibn Majah titled his chapter, "Chapter on strictness regarding urination." None of them titled it "urinating while standing," even though that is the closer of the two meanings to the comparison. Some scholars have related that the Arabs regarded urinating while standing as a mark of manliness among men, but not among women. As for exposing the private parts, it was not widespread among them, though they were not particular about it.As for his statement, "If urine touched them, they would cut off whatever the urine had touched," he means the clothing. The sahih narrations mention "the garment," and what appears in some narrations mentioning "the skin" or "the body" should be understood as an elision of the possessive noun, meaning the garment covering their body or their skin. For taking it literally, as "the skin" or "the body," would mean they cut off their entire bodies because of how often this occurred, and Allah does not burden any of His servants, in any time or place, with what they cannot bear.