The witness version of ʿAlī b. Thābit
السيرة النبوية لمحمد بن اسحاق في رواية علي بن ثابت
حدثنا @TR1_ALTH@ علي بن ثابت عن محمد بن إسحاق عن @EW1_MIHT@ محمد بن إبراهيم بن الحارث التيمي عن أبي سلمة بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف عن زيد بن خالد الجهني قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لولا أن أشق على أمتي لأمرتهم بالسواك عند كل صلاة قال فكان زيد يروح إلى المسجد وسواكه على أذنه بموضع قلم الكاتب ما تقام صلاة إلا استاك قبل أن يصلي
حدثنا @TR1_ALTH@ على بن ثابت عن محمد بن إسحاق عن @EW1_MIHT@ محمد بن إبراهيم ابن الحارث التيمى عن أبى سلمة بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف عن زيد بن خالد الجهنى قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لولا أن أشق على أمتى لأمرتهم بالسواك عند كل صلاة قال فكان زيد يروح إلى المسجد وسواكه على أذنه موضع قلم الكاتب ما تقام صلاة إلا استاك قبل أن يصلى.
These specific passages are not found in the redaction of Ibn Hishām. Placement based on content and the beginning of ritual practices, in this instance, treating the issue of ablutions for every prayer and its abrogation (approximate to HSNXV01P584D (ʿAbd al-Malik b. Hishām, al-Sīrah al-Nabuwīyah, vol. 1 p. 584)). Of this tradition, Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Sawrah al-Tirmidhī states:
وقد روى هذا الحديث محمد بن إسحاق عن محمد بن إبراهيم عن أبي سلمة عن زيد بن خالد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وحديث أبي سلمة عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كلاهما عندي صحيح لأنه قد روي من غير وجه عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم هذا الحديث وحديث أبي هريرة إنما صح لأنه قد روي من غير وجه وأما محمد فزعم أن حديث أبي سلمة عن زيد بن خالد أصح وفي الباب عن أبي بكر الصديق وعلي وعائشة وابن عباس وحذيفة وزيد بن خالد وأنس وعبد الله بن عمرو وابن عمر وأم حبيبة وأبي أمامة وأبي أيوب وتمام بن عباس، وعبد الله بن حنظلة وأم سلمة وواثلة وأبي موسى (see TMSXV01P034B (al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, vol. 1 p. 34)).
This passage is one of the most frequently related traditions in the Ibn Isḥāq corpus with 88 witnessed variations across 13 witnesses. The largest collection of variations are in WSACD (Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Madinī al-Zuhrī) (HBHXV02P272A (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 2 p. 272) , HBHXV44P346A (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 44 p. 346), HBHXV45P405B (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 45 p. 405), MDRXV02P931A (ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī, Musnad al-Dārimī, vol. 2 p. 931), BKHBV06P462B (Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Bukhārī, Taʾrīkh al-kabīr, vol. 6 p. 462), ZTKXV02P212D (Ibn Abī Khaythamah, al-Tārīkh al-kabīr sifr al-thānī, vol. 2 p. 212), SJRMV01P078A (Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Sajastānī, Al-radd ʿalā munkar, vol. 1 p. 78), ZZBXV02P121B (Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Bazzār, Musnad al-Bazzār, vol. 2 p. 121), MYWXV13P048A (Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī, Musnad, vol. 13 p. 48), MYWXV13P064A (Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī, Musnad, vol. 13 p. 64), THQXV01P070C (Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥkām al-Qurʾān al-karīm, vol. 1 p. 70), THSMV01P043A (Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī, Sharḥ maʿānī al-āthār, vol. 1 p. 43), BMMXV01P073A (Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, Amālī al-maḥāmilī, vol. 1 p. 73), AAKHV01P084A (Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim al-Kabīr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nīsābūrī, Mā ittaṣala ilaynā min fawāʾid, vol. 1 p. 84), DRKNV01P089B (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-nuzūl, vol. 1 p. 89), DRKNV01P091A (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-nuzūl, vol. 1 p. 91), DRKNV01P127A (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-nuzūl, vol. 1 p. 127), IMAQV01P038A (Ibn al-Maḥāmilī, Amālī, vol. 1 p. 38), AGHTV01P068B (ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ̣Alī al-Maqdisī al-Jamāʿīlī, al-Targhīb fī al-Duʿāʾ, vol. 1 p. 68), TMTTV02P270B (Qawwām al-Sunnah, Taghrīb waʾl-tarhīb, vol. 2 p. 270), MGHSV01P058B (Mughalṭāy b. Qalīj, Sharḥ sunan Ibn Mājah, vol. 1 p. 58), MGHSV01P1031B (Mughalṭāy b. Qalīj, Sharḥ sunan Ibn Mājah, vol. 1 p. 1031), HYGHV01P143C (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Ghāyat al-muqṣad fī zawāʾid al-musnad, vol. 1 p. 143), HYGHV01P244E (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Ghāyat al-muqṣad fī zawāʾid al-musnad, vol. 1 p. 244), HYGHV01P244F (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Ghāyat al-muqṣad fī zawāʾid al-musnad, vol. 1 p. 244), HYGHV04P352F (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Ghāyat al-muqṣad fī zawāʾid al-musnad, vol. 4 p. 352), HYKUV01P240B (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Kashf al-astār ʿan zawāʾid al-Bazzār, vol. 1 p. 240), HYMXV01P130D (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, al-Maqṣid al-ʿalī fī zawāʾid Abī Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, vol. 1 p. 130), AAIBV01P290C (Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Ismāʿīl al-Būṣīrī, Itḥāf al-khiyrah al-maharah bi-Zawāʾid al-masānid al-ʿashrah, vol. 1 p. 290), AAIBV02P150B (Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Ismāʿīl al-Būṣīrī, Itḥāf al-khiyrah al-maharah bi-Zawāʾid al-masānid al-ʿashrah, vol. 2 p. 150), HJRTV11P680B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 11 p. 680), HJRTV15P411B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 15 p. 411), HJRTV16P954A (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 16 p. 954), HJRTV16P966A (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 16 p. 966), HJIIV07P420B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Iṭrāf al-musnid al-maʿtalī bi-Iṭrāf al-musnad al-Ḥanbalī, vol. 7 p. 420), HJIIV08P421B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Iṭrāf al-musnid al-maʿtalī bi-Iṭrāf al-musnad al-Ḥanbalī, vol. 8 p. 421), and HJIIV09P376B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Iṭrāf al-musnid al-maʿtalī bi-Iṭrāf al-musnad al-Ḥanbalī, vol. 9 p. 376)). Also see WAKMW (Aḥmad b. Khālid b. Mūsā al-Wahbī al-Kindī) (VAR_STBXV05P243F (al-Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-kabīr, vol. 5 p. 243), DRKNV01P126B (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-nuzūl, vol. 1 p. 126), TJJXV01P455B (Ḥamzah b. Yūsuf al-Sahmī, Taʾrīkh Jurjān aw Kitāb maʿrifat ʿulamāʾ ahl Jurjān, vol. 1 p. 455), AUBXV01P048A (Abū ʿUthmān al-Baḥīrī, al-Thānī min fawāʾid, vol. 1 p. 48), BQSXV04P058B (al-Bayhaqī, Sunan al-kubrā, vol. 4 p. 58), TDSHV27P420B (Ibn ʿAsākir, Taʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq, vol. 27 p. 420), MZTXV20P135E (al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʾ al-rijāl, vol. 20 p. 135), and HJRQV03P162B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Taghlīq al-taʿlīq ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, vol. 3 p. 162)); WASKA (ʿAbdah (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān) b. Sulaymān al-Kilābī al-Kūfī) (TMSXV01P035A (al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, vol. 1 p. 35) and TMSBV01P077B (al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, vol. 1 p. 77)); WIMTR (Ibrāhīm b. al-Mukhtār al-Tamīmī al-Rāzī) (HJRTV15P411B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 15 p. 411)); WIYAS (ʿĪsā b. Yūnus b. Abī Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī al-Kufī **) (VAR_DWNXV01P012E (Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān b. al-Ashʿath, Sunan Abī Dāwūd , vol. 1 p. 12), BQSXV01P060D (al-Bayhaqī, Sunan al-kubrā, vol. 1 p. 60), KHFMV01P219A (al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, al-Faqīh waʾl-mutafaqqih, vol. 1 p. 219), ASHDV01P148B (al-ʿAynī, Sharḥ Sunan Abī Dāwūd, vol. 1 p. 148)); WJHZA (Jarīr b. Ḥāzim b. Zayd b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Shajāʿ al-Azdī al-ʿAtkī al-Baṣrī) (VAR_BMMXV01P072A (Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, Amālī al-maḥāmilī, vol. 1 p. 72), KHTMV03P2092C (al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī , Muttafiq waʾl-muftariq, vol. 3 p. 2092), IMAQV01P037A (Ibn al-Maḥāmilī, Amālī, vol. 1 p. 37), TMTTV02P270A (Qawwām al-Sunnah, Taghrīb waʾl-tarhīb, vol. 2 p. 270), UNMSV01P088B (ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Sahrawardī, Mashyakhat al-Sahrawardī, vol. 1 p. 88), and HJRQV03P162C (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Taghlīq al-taʿlīq ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, vol. 3 p. 162)); WMAAI (Muḥammad b. Abī ʿAdī (Ibrāhīm) al-Baṣrī) (VAR_HBHXV16P361A (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 16 p. 361), ZZBXV15P109A (Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Bazzār, Musnad al-Bazzār, vol. 15 p. 109), DQKSV01P127A (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-ṣifāt, vol. 1 p. 127), HJRTV15P411B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 15 p. 411), and HJIIV07P420B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Iṭrāf al-musnid al-maʿtalī bi-Iṭrāf al-musnad al-Ḥanbalī, vol. 7 p. 420)); WMFGH (Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl b. Ghazwān b. Jarīr al-Ḍabbī al-Kūfī) (VAR_HBHXV28P282A (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 28 p. 282), HBHXV16P361A (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 16 p. 361), ZZBXV15P109A (Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Bazzār, Musnad al-Bazzār, vol. 15 p. 109), DQKSV01P127A (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-ṣifāt, vol. 1 p. 127), and HJRTV15P411B (Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Itḥāf al-maharah bi-al-fawāʾid al-mubtakarah min aṭrāf al-ʿasharah, vol. 15 p. 411)); WMSAH (Muḥammad b. Salamah b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bāhilī al-Ḥarrānī) (VAR_SJRMV01P078A (Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Sajastānī, Al-radd ʿalā munkar, vol. 1 p. 78), ZZBXV15P122A (Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Bazzār, Musnad al-Bazzār, vol. 15 p. 122), NSKXV03P291A (al-Nasāʾī, al-Sunan al-kubrā, vol. 3 p. 291), NSKXV03P291B (al-Nasāʾī, al-Sunan al-kubrā, vol. 3 p. 291), MZSHV03P243F (al-Mizzī, Tuḥfat al-ashrāf bi-maʿrifat al-aṭrāf, vol. 3 p. 243), and MZSHV10P280D (al-Mizzī, Tuḥfat al-ashrāf bi-maʿrifat al-aṭrāf, vol. 10 p. 280)); WSABZ (Saʿīd b. Bazīʿ) (VAR_ZZBXV02P121B (Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAmr al-Bazzār, Musnad al-Bazzār, vol. 2 p. 121), DRKNV01P091A (al-Dāraquṭnī, Kitāb al-nuzūl, vol. 1 p. 91), KHTGV05P422C (al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād, vol. 5 p. 422), and HYKUV01P240B (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Kashf al-astār ʿan zawāʾid al-Bazzār, vol. 1 p. 240)); WYBWS (Yūnus b. Bukayr b. Wāṣil al-Shaybānī al-Jamāl al-Kūfī) (VAR_HBHXV02P043B (Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, vol. 2 p. 43), MULUV01P172F (Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Aṣbahānī al-Madīnī, Kitāb al-laṭāʾif min ʿulūm al-maʿārif, vol. 1 p. 172), and MULUV01P374A (Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Aṣbahānī al-Madīnī, Kitāb al-laṭāʾif min ʿulūm al-maʿārif, vol. 1 p. 374)); and WYUAU (Yaʿlā b. ʿUbayd b. Abī Umayyah al-Īyādī al-Tanāfisī al-Kūfī) (VAR_SHBMV01P155A (Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Kitāb al-muṣannaf fī al-aḥāddīth waʾl-āthār, vol. 1 p. 155), STBXV05P244A (al-Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-kabīr, vol. 5 p. 244), HMBSV01P393B (al-Ḥusayn b. Masʿūd b. Muḥammad al-Baghawī al-Shāfiʿī, Sharḥ al-sunnah, vol. 1 p. 393), and TDAHV01P088C (Ibn ʿAsākir, Arbaʿūn ḥadīthan li-arbaʿīn shaykhan min arbaʿīn baldatan, vol. 1 p. 88)). There are also several instances in which the tradition is cited without a witness (see TMKXV01P030A (al-Tirmidhī, ʿIlal al-Tirmidhī al-kabīr, vol. 1 p. 30), TMSBV01P076B (al-Tirmidhī, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, vol. 1 p. 76), YNQXV07P198B (al-ʿAynī, ʿUmdat al-qārī sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, vol. 7 p. 198), YNQXV11P019C (al-ʿAynī, ʿUmdat al-qārī sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, vol. 11 p. 19), MZSHV11P011J (al-Mizzī, Tuḥfat al-ashrāf bi-maʿrifat al-aṭrāf, vol. 11 p. 11), NHXXV01P009B (ʿAbd Allāh b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad al-Zaylaʿī, Nasb al-rāyah li-aḥādīth al-hidāyah, vol. 1 p. 9), NHXXV01P247D (ʿAbd Allāh b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad al-Zaylaʿī, Nasb al-rāyah li-aḥādīth al-hidāyah, vol. 1 p. 247), IMBTV01P719A (Ibn al-Mulaqin, al-Badr al-munīr fī takhrīj al-ahādīth waʾl-āthār al-wāqiʿah fī al-sharḥ al-kabīr, vol. 1 p. 719), IMBTV02P067A (Ibn al-Mulaqin, al-Badr al-munīr fī takhrīj al-ahādīth waʾl-āthār al-wāqiʿah fī al-sharḥ al-kabīr, vol. 2 p. 67), IMTMV01P081A (Ibn al-Mulaqin, Tadhlirat al-muḥtāj ilā aḥādīth al-minhāj, vol. 1 p. 81), HYMZV02P097A (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-zawāʾid wa-manbaʿ al-fawāʾid, vol. 2 p. 97), and HYMZV10P154B (Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-zawāʾid wa-manbaʿ al-fawāʾid, vol. 10 p. 154)). The tradition is related to Ibn Isḥāq from several different sources: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī, Saʿīd b. Abī Saʿīd al-Maqrubī, Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Hibbān (sometimes listed as Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Hisṣān), Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī al-Rajāl al-Ṣalaḥī, and Ibn Isḥāq’s uncle, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yasār.