205curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

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I would have ordered the siwak

Friday, January 23, 2004

لَوْلَا أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لَأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ

Transliteration

Lawla an ashuqqa ala ummati la-amartuhum bi-s-siwaki inda kulli salah.

Translation

If I were not to be hard on my Ummah, I would have ordered them to use the siwak before every prayer.

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah·Sahih al-Bukhari 887, Sahih Muslim 252

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