Volume 1, Book 4, Number 198:
Narrated ‘Amr bin Yahya:
(on the authority of his father) My uncle used to perform ablution extravagantly and once he
asked ‘Abdullah bin Zaid to tell him how he had seen the Prophet performing ablution. He asked for
an earthen-ware pot containing water, and poured water from it on his hands and washed them
thrice, and then put his hand in the earthen-ware pot and rinsed his mouth and washed his nose by
putting water in it and then blowing it Out thrice with one handful of water; he again put his hand
in the water and took a handful of water and washed his face thrice, then washed his hands up to
the elbows twice, and took water with his hand, and passed it over his head from front to back and
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then from back to front, and then washed his feet (up to the ankles) and said, “I saw the Prophet per –
forming ablution in that way.”