Sunan an Nasai

Arabic text

أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ لَوْلاَ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation · English edition, open hadith corpus

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:"Were it not that it would be too difficult for my Ummah, I would have commanded them to use the Siwak at (the time of) every Salah

Published assessments

• Sahih
  Abu Ghuddah
• Sahih
  Al-Albani
• Sahih - Agreed Upon
  Zubair Ali Zai

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