And from him (may Allah be pleased with him) he said: (The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would perform wudu with a mudd and perform ghusl with a sa' to five mudds). Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
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The Shaykh : He said: "And from him (may Allah be pleased with him) — meaning from Anas — he said: Bulugh al-Maram 56":
: The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) mentioned in the principles of jurisprudence that "kana" (was) generally indicates continuity if its verb is a present-tense verb, , he used to read, he used to do, but it is not always the case. And what is found as an absolute statement from some scholars: that "kana" is for continuity, their meaning is generally. And the evidence for this is the narrated hadiths; you will find, for example, the hadith: Bulugh al-Maram 2:424 and another hadith , so if we interpreted them as always being continuous, this would be a contradiction, but it is generally the case.
Bulugh al-Maram 56: It has been mentioned previously that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was given two-thirds of a mudd and he used it to rub his forearms, even though it is weak. And the mudd is a quarter of a sa', meaning: a quarter of the sa' of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the term used among us here is that the mudd is one-third of a sa'.
And his saying: which is four mudds, and as we mentioned to you previously, it is less than the sa' that exists with us by how much?
One-fifth, it is less than the sa' by one-fifth and our sa' is more than it?
The student: One-fifth.
The Shaykh : No, you say it is less than our sa' by one-fifth and our sa' is more than it?
The student: One-fifth.
The Shaykh : No, that is a mistake; it is more than it by one-quarter, it is more than it by one-quarter, do you understand now?
So if you compare the increase of our sa' over the sa' of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), you say: it is more than it by one-quarter, because that is eighty and this is one hundred and four.
Good, and if I say: the sa' of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is less than our sa', we say: one-fifth, yes, meaning twenty out of one hundred and four.
: So it becomes a sa' and a mudd, and this is the most common; the most common is that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would perform wudu with a mudd and perform ghusl with a sa'.
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used only one Mudd of water for ablution and one Sa’
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يتوضأ بالمد ويغتسل بالصاعThe Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
كان رسول اللهHe used to perform ghusl
كان يغتسلNarrated Abu Waqid al-Laithi (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite on ('Eid) al-Adha and ('Eid) al-Fitr, Surat Qaf (Chapter 50) and Surat Al-Qamar (Chapter 54). [Reported by Muslim].
كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقرأ في الجمعة سبح والغاشيةHe used to recite in the Friday prayer al-Munafiqun
كان يقرأ بالجمعة والمنافقينAllah’s Messenger (ﷺ) used only one Mudd of water for ablution
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يتوضأ بالمدAnd his saying:
Perform ghusl with a sa'
يغتسل بالصاعOne-fifth, it is less than the sa' by one-fifth and our sa' is more than it?
The student: One-fifth.
The Shaykh : No, you say it is less than our sa' by one-fifth and our sa' is more than it?
The student: One-fifth.
The Shaykh : No, that is a mistake; it is more than it by one-quarter, it is more than it by one-quarter, do you understand now?
So if you compare the increase of our sa' over the sa' of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), you say: it is more than it by one-quarter, because that is eighty and this is one hundred and four.
Good, and if I say: the sa' of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is less than our sa', we say: one-fifth, yes, meaning twenty out of one hundred and four.