Another tradition on the authority of Anas has:" O Allaah, I seek refuge in Thee." Shu'bah said: Anas sometimes reported the words: "I take refuge in Allah."

Narrated Salman al-Farsi: It was said to Salman: Your Prophet teaches you everything, even about excrement. He replied: Yes. He has forbidden us to face the qiblah at the time of easing or urinating, and cleansing with right hand, and cleansing with less than three stones, or cleansing with dung or bone.

Marwan al-Asfar said: I saw Ibn Umar make his camel kneel down facing the qiblah, then he sat down urinating in its direction. So I said: AbuAbdurRahman, has this not been forbidden? He replied: Why not, that was forbidden only in open country; but when there is something between you and the qiblah that conceals you , then there is no harm.

Aishah, also reported a tradition bearing similar meaning through another chain of transmitters.

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: The key to prayer is purification; its beginning is takbir and its end is taslim.

Narrated Abu Khaldah: I asked Abu'l-'Aliyah whether a person who is sexually defiled and has no water with him, but he has only nabidh, can wash with it? He replied in the negative.

This tradition has also been narrated on the authority of ‘A’ishah through a different chain.

This Tradition has been reported by Abu Hurairah through another chain of transmitters. It adds : “ twice or thrice.” This version does not mention Abu Razin.

Malik b. Ghurfatah says : I heard ‘Abd Khair say: I saw a chair was brought to ‘Ali who sat on it. A vessel of water was then brought to him. He washed his hands three times ; he then rinsed his mouth and snuffed up water with one handful of water. He narrated the tradition completely.

‘Abd Allah b. Zaid b. ‘Asim reported this tradition saying: He rinsed his mouth and snuffed up water from one hand, doing that three times.

Another version says: He wiped his ears inside and outside. Hisham adds: He inserted his fingers in the ear-holes.

Another version says: He performed each part of the ablution three times and washed his feet times without number.

Ibn ‘Uqail reported this tradition with a slight change of wording. In his tradition he said: He rinsed his mouth three times and snuffed up water three times.

The tradition has also been reported by Qais b. Talq through a different chain of narrators. This version adds the wording: "during the prayer"

This tradition has also been transmitted by Zuhair through a different chain of narrators, to the same effect. He said: When the menstruation begins, you should abandon prayer; when the period equal to its length of time passes, you should wash away the blood and pray.

This tradition has been transmitted through a different chain of narrators. According to this version. 'Aishah said: She would wash herself for every prayer.

'Aishah said about the woman who has a prolonged flow of blood: She should take bath, i.e. only once; then she should perform ablution until he next menstrual period.

'Umm 'Atiyyah has narrated this tradition through a different chain of transmitters. Abu DAwud said: The name of Umm al-Hudhail is Hafsah daughter os Sirin. The name of her son was Hudhail and his husband 'Abd al-Rahman.

'Ikrimah reported Hamnah daughter of Jahsh as saying that her husband would have intercourse with her during the period she had a flow of blood.

Abu Qais, the freed slave of 'Amr b. al-'As, said 'Amr b. al-'As was in a battle. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. He then said: He washed his armpits and other joints where dirt was found, and he performed ablution like that for prayer. Then he led them in prayer. He then narrated the tradition in a similar way but did not mention of tayammum. Abu Dawud said: This incident has also been narrated by al-'Awza'i on the authority of Hassan b. 'Atiyyah. This version has the words: Then he performed tayammum.