Ablution: sins leaving with the water

الوضوء: خروج الخطايا مع الماء

When a Muslim servant performs ablution and washes his face, every sin he looked at with his eyes leaves his face with the water or with its last drop, and so with the hands and the feet, until he comes out clean of sins, in Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him)'s narration in Muslim Sahih Muslim 577 — bad deeds erased and sins shed, with its sense in the Muwatta Muwatta 66. The text spreads the erasure over the limbs one by one without giving it a figure.

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The reckoning of good and bad deeds

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The good deeds (al-hasanat)· The balance (al-mizan)· Sayyi'at (evil deeds and sins)· The reckoning of good and bad deeds· Expiation (kaffara)· The Reckoning· Calling to guidance or to error: the like of the rewards and sins of those who follow· Hajj without lewdness or wrongdoing, and umra to umra

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  • Sahih Muslim
  • hadith-api (fawazahmed0): open hadith editions
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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The good deeds (al-hasanat)