al-Tahdhib 6/230, 231. [Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab said to him:] 'Then three mudds.' The man said: 'Three mudds is little.' Sa'id said to him: 'Then a sa'.' And Sa'id said: 'I have a rakwa (8) or a cup that holds only half a mudd of water or similar, then I urinate, then I perform wudu, and I have some left over from it.' 'Abd al-Rahman said: 'So I mentioned this hadith that I heard from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab to Sulayman ibn Yasar (9), and Sulayman said: "And such [amount] suffices me." ' 'Abd al-Rahman said: 'So I mentioned that to Abu 'Ubaydah ibn 'Ammar ibn Yasir (10), and Abu 'Ubaydah said: "And thus we heard from the companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)." ' Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: 'I perform wudu from a jar twice.'
Section: And if he exceeds the mudd in wudu and the sa' in ghusl, it is permissible, for 'Aishah said: 'I used to perform ghusl, I and the Prophet (peace be upon him), from a single vessel, from a cup called: al-faraq.' Narrated by al-Bukhari. (11) The faraq is three sa's. And from Anas, he said: 'The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to perform ghusl...'
= al-Tahdhib 6/230, 231. (7) Omitted from: The original. (8) Al-Rakwa: A small leather water bucket. (9) Abu Ayyub Sulayman ibn Yasar al-Hilali al-Madani, the freed slave of Maymunah. It is said he was a mukatab (under a contract of manumission) for Umm Salamah. He was among the scholars of the people after Ibn al-Musayyab and among the jurists of Medina. He died in the year 107 AH. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 4/228-230. (10) Abu 'Ubaydah ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ammar ibn Yasir al-'Ansi, brother of Salamah ibn Muhammad; it is said they are the same person. Ibn Ma'in declared him trustworthy. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 12/160, 161. (11) In: Chapter on a man performing ghusl with his wife, from the Book of Ghusl. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/72. It was also recorded by Muslim, in: Chapter on the recommended amount of water in the ghusl of janabah, etc., from the Book of Menstruation. Sahih Muslim 1/255; and Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on the amount of water that suffices in ghusl, from the Book of Purification. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/55; and al-Nasa'i, in: Chapter on the mention of the amount that suffices a man of water for ghusl, and Chapter on the mention of evidence that there is no set time for that, from the Book of Purification, and in: Chapter on evidence that there is no fixed timing for the water one performs ghusl with, from the Book of Ghusl. al-Mujtaba 1/105, 106, =
