Salma, the freed servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, or rather the wife of Abu Rafi, the freed servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ seeking his help against Abu Rafi, who had struck her.She said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Abu Rafi, "What is the matter between you and her, Abu Rafi?"He replied, "She harms me, Messenger of Allah."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then asked, "How did you harm him, Salma?"She said, "Messenger of Allah, I did not harm him in any way. He passed wind while he was praying, so I said to him, 'Abu Rafi, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has commanded the Muslims that whenever one of them passes wind he must perform ablution.' At that he stood up and struck me."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ began to laugh and said, "Abu Rafi, she only instructed you to do what is good."
أتت سلمى مولاة رسول الله ﷺ- أو امرأة أبي رافع مولى رسول الله ﷺ- إلى رسول الله ﷺ تستأذنه على أبي رافع قد ضربها، قالت: قال رسول الله ﷺ لأبي رافع: ما لك ولها يا أبا رافع؟ قال تؤذيني يا رسول الله! فقال رسول الله ﷺ: بم آذيته يا سلمي؟ قالت يا رسول الله ما آذيته بشيء، ولكنه أحدث وهو يصلي، فقلت له: يا أبا رافع إن رسول الله ﷺ قد أمر المسلمين إذا خرج من أحدهم الريح أن يتوضأ، فقام وضربني، فجعل رسول الله ﷺ يضحك ويقول: يا أبا رافع! إنها لم تأمرك إلا بخير.
Ahmad narrated it (26339) from Yaqub, who is Ibn Ibrahim, who said, my father narrated to me, from Muhammad bin Ishaq, who said, Hisham bin Urwa narrated to me, from his father, from Ayesha, and he related the hadith. Muhammad bin Ishaq is truthful but known for tadlis, and here he explicitly stated that he heard it directly, so the suspicion of tadlis is removed from him. Bazzar also narrated it through this same route, Kashf Astar (1/146, no. 280), as did Tabarani in Al-Kabir (24, no. 765), but without the explicit statement of hearing directly from Ibn Ishaq.As for what is narrated from Ibn Umar, who said, I heard the Messenger of Allah say, "If one of you, while in his prayer, experiences a razz, let him withdraw and perform wudu," this is a gharib narration. Tabarani narrated it in Al-Awsat and Al-Sagheer, Majma Bahrayn (896), from Husayn bin Muhammad Khayyat Ramahurmuzi, who said, Ibrahim bin Rashid Adami narrated to us, who said, Muhammad bin Bilal Basri narrated to us, who said, Imran Qattan narrated to us, from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ibn Umar, who related it. Tabarani said, "No one narrated from Imran except Muhammad bin Bilal." Ibn Adi said of Muhammad bin Bilal, "He narrates gharib reports from Imran, and he has gharib hadiths from others besides Imran as well."I say, this is one of his gharib narrations, and Imran Qattan used to make frequent errors, for the correct position is that razz, with the ra vowelled with kasrah and the za doubled, does not invalidate wudu. It is the faint sound that occurs in the belly, for wudu is invalidated by its actual emergence, not merely by rumbling in the belly.Something similar has also been narrated from Ali bin Abu Talib, recorded by Imam Ahmad (668), but its chain contains Ibn Lahia, about whom there is well known discussion.