English Translation

Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Yahya ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Sukkari in Baghdad informed us, from Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Saffar, from Ahmad ibn Mansur, from Abd al-Razzaq, from Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from Salim, that Ibn Umar, while he was praying, noticed blood on his garment. He stopped, gestured to them, and they brought him water. He washed it, then completed what remained of his prayer based on what had already passed, and did not start over. The Shaykh said: This is the view al-Shafi'i held in his old doctrine, may Allah have mercy on him, and he cited the hadith of Abu Sa'id and Ibn Umar as evidence for what we have narrated. Then he retracted it in his new doctrine and said: He repeats the prayer whether he knew what was on his garment or not, just as with ablution. The Shaykh, may Allah have mercy on him, said: This is the view of al-Hasan al-Basri and Abu Qilabah. Al-Shafi'i, may Allah have mercy on him, rejected the hadith of Abu Sa'id because it is known through Hammad ibn Salamah from Abu Na'amah al-Sa'di from Abu Nadrah, and each one of them is disputed regarding his reliability. Likewise, al-Bukhari did not cite any of them as proof in his Sahih, nor did Muslim include it in his book despite citing them as proof in other narrations. It is also possible that he rejected it because he considered Jibril's informing him of that as the beginning of a new ruling, or he interpreted the "harm" mentioned as referring to things that are impure but not ritually filthy. And Allah knows best. This hadith has also been narrated from Bakr ibn Abdullah al-Muzani from the Prophet (peace be upon him) as a mursal hadith, and from the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud, Ibn Abbas, and Abu Hurayrah as connected narrations, except that the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud is narrated only by Abu Hamzah al-Ra'i from Ibrahim from Alqamah from Abdullah, and Abu Hamzah is not to be cited as proof. It has been narrated through another weaker chain. The hadith of Ibn Abbas is narrated only by Furat ibn al-Sa'ib from Maymun ibn Mihran from Ibn Abbas, and Furat ibn al-Sa'ib has been abandoned. The hadith of Abu Hurayrah is narrated only by Abbad ibn Kathir, and Abbad is not to be cited as proof. However, it has been narrated from Anas ibn Malik with a chain that is acceptable.