Azami 1594

Ibn Majah narrated it (415) coupled with the report from Abu Hurairah, as mentioned before, from Abu Kurayb, who said, Khalid bin Hayan narrated to us, from Salim Abu Muhajir, from Maymun bin Mihran, from Ayesha and Abu Hurairah, and he related it. Its isnad is hasan because of Khalid bin Hayan, who is "truthful."This is how Maymun bin Mihran narrated it from Ayesha, in summarized form. Abu Abdullah Salim Sablan narrated it in detail.Nasai narrated it (100) from Husayn bin Hurayth, who said, Fadl bin Musa narrated to us, from Juayd bin Abdul-Rahman, who said, Abdul-Malik bin Marwan bin Harith bin Abu Dhubab informed me, who said, Abu Abdullah Salim Sablan informed me, who said,Ayesha admired his trustworthiness and used to hire him. So she showed me how the Messenger of Allahﷺ used to perform wudu. She rinsed her mouth and sniffed water into her nose three times, washed her face three times, then washed her right arm three times and her left arm three times, and placed her hand on the front of her head, then wiped her head with a single wipe to the back of it, then passed her hands over her ears, then passed them over her cheeks.Salim said, "I used to come to her as a mukatab, and she would not hide from me. She would sit in front of me and talk with me, until one day I came to her and said, 'Pray for a blessing for me, O Mother of the Believers.' She said, 'What is that?' I said, 'Allah has set me free.' She said, 'May Allah bless you for that,' and she lowered the veil between us, and I did not see her after that day."Abdul-Malik bin Marwan bin Harith is "acceptable," because no one besides Ibn Hibban rated him trustworthy. This detailed account perhaps corresponds to the summarized account that Maymun bin Mihran related from Ayesha.As for his statement, "she wiped her head with a single wipe to the back of it," this is a general expression that is applied both to someone who wipes from front to back and to someone who wipes from back to front, and it is also described as "once," as in the earlier hadiths.As for his statement, "I used to come to her as a mukatab," this is based on the view that a mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham is still owed by him, and this was perhaps her position on the matter. And Allah knows best.