Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26279

Ishaq bin Mansour told us, Yahya bin Saeed Al-Qattan told us, Humaid Al-Taweel told us, on the authority of Bakr bin Abdullah Al-Muzani, on the authority of Abu Rafi’, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, met him while he was junub and said, “I urinated,” meaning, “I urinated,” so I bathed and then came. He said, “Where have you been or where have you gone?” I said that I was in a state of ritual impurity. He said, “A Muslim is not impure.” He said, “And in the chapter On the authority of Hudhayfah and Ibn Abbas. Abu Issa said, and the hadith of Abu Hurairah is that he met the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was nearby. It is a good and authentic hadith. More than one of the people of knowledge permitted shaking hands with a man in a state of impurity, and they did not see anything wrong with the sweat of a man in a state of impurity or a menstruating woman. It means I stepped away from him...