Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, and someone else, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al Haysam Bin Urwa Al Tameemi who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic so wash your faces and your hands to the elbows [5:6] . I said, ‘Like this?’ – and I wiped the back of my palm up to the elbow’. So he -asws said: ‘Not like this. Descend it. But rather, it (the Verse is) wash your faces and your hands from the elbows [5:6] ’.
Then he -asws passed his -asws hand from his -asws elbow down to his -asws fingers’. [8] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ جَمِيعاً عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) أَ لَا تُخْبِرُنِي مِنْ أَيْنَ عَلِمْتَ وَ قُلْتَ إِنَّ الْمَسْحَ بِبَعْضِ الرَّأْسِ وَ بَعْضِ الرِّجْلَيْنِ فَضَحِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا زُرَارَةُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ نَزَلَ بِهِ الْكِتَابُ مِنَ اللَّهِ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ فَعَرَفْنَا أَنَّ الْوَجْهَ كُلَّهُ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يُغْسَلَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ أَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرافِقِ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, altogether from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far -asws , ‘Can you -asws inform me from where do you -asws know and say that the wiping is with part of the head and part of the two legs?’ So he -asws smiled and said: ‘O Zurara!
Rasool-Allah -saww said so and the Book was Revealed with it from Allah -azwj , because Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying so wash your faces [5:6] , thus we recognise that the face, all of it, it is befitting that one washes it. Then He -azwj Said and your hands to the elbows [5:6] .