•
On the authority of ‘Aaisha,
may Allaah be pleased with her, said: “When the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله
عليه وسلم, would enter the house, he would begin with the siwaak.”[1]
•
On the authority of al-Miqdaad bin Shurayh
on his father who said: “I said to ‘Aaisha, may Allaah be pleased with her, what
did the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم used to begin with when he entered
his house? She said: “The
siwaak.”[2]
•
Sheikh ‘Abdul ‘Azeez bin Baaz, may Allaah mercy upon him, was asked:
The
Sheikh said: “This is not true. The siwaak
is legislated for everyone to use; men and women at the time of prayer, wudoo’, when about
to pray, when
entering the house, when waking up from sleep, etc. The
Messenger صلى
الله عليه وسلم said in an authentic hadeeth:
“The siwaak
is a purification for the mouth and pleases the Lord[3],” and he صلى الله
عليه وسلم said:
“If I didn’t fear difficulty upon my nation I would have ordered them to use
the siwaak
at every prayer.”
•
Sheikh ‘Abdul Muhsin al-’Abbaad, may Allaah preserve him, mentioned while
explaining this hadeeth,
i.e. hadeeth
of ‘Aaisha, in Sunan
Abi Daawud:
“This
hadeeth
only proves the
commencement of the siwaak when entering the home
and some People of Knowledge have said: “Indeed this sunnah is from the
abandoned sunan.”
Therefore,
for a man to use the siwaak
when he enters his home is something that many of the people are ignorant of
and from that which very few people perform.
So
for a man to enter his house and begin to use the siwaak is a sunnah that the
Messenger of Allaah صلى
الله عليه وسلم used to do.
And
as for the wisdom behind this then perhaps, and Allaah knows best, is that so a
person’s breath can be pleasant and that his family gets a pleasant smell from
him. And if there is anything in his mouth that could result in an unpleasant
smell or the like then it will be removed by the usage of the siwaak. Perhaps
this is the reason and Allaah knows best.”
•
Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said when mentioning the
guidance of the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم concerning the fitrah, i.e. the
natural disposition:
“And
he used to love the siwaak,
he would use the siwaak
when he was muftir
(not fasting) and when fasting, when waking up from sleep, at the time of wudoo’, at the time
of prayer, when
entering the house and he would clean his teeth with a siwaak from
the araak
tree.”
[1]Muslim
[2]Muslim
[3]An-Nisaa’ee
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