Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26174

Hanad narrated to us, Abu Muawiyah narrated to us, on the authority of Al-Amash, on the authority of Ibrahim, on the authority of Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid, it was said to Salman that he taught you Your Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, everything, even excrement. Salman said, “Yes, he forbade us from facing the Qiblah while defecating or urinating.” We clean ourselves with the right hand, or one of us cleans ourselves with fewer than three stones, or we clean ourselves with a dung or a bone. He said: Abu Issa, and on the authority of Aisha, Khuzaymah bin Thabit, Jabir, and Khallad bin Al-Sa’ib, on the authority of his father. Abu Issa said, and the hadith of Salman in This section A hasan and authentic hadith. This is the opinion of most people of knowledge among the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and those after them who believed that istinja’ With stones is sufficient, even if he does not cleanse himself with water if it purifies the traces of excrement and urine, and with it say Al-Thawri and Ibn Al-Mubarak And Al-Shafi’i And Ahmad and Ishaq...