Muwatta 116

A report that Malik transmits from Yahya ibn Sa'id from Abdullah ibn Ka'b, client of Uthman ibn Affan (may God be pleased with him), in the chapter on what makes the bath obligatory when the two circumcised parts meet: Mahmud ibn Labid al-Ansari asked Zayd ibn Thabit (may God be pleased with him) about a man who has intercourse with his wife, grows lazy, and does not ejaculate. Zayd said he must bathe. Mahmud said Ubayy ibn Ka'b did not require bathing, and Zayd told him that Ubayy had retracted that before he died. The editor explains nazi' as to refrain, turn back and return, and notes that Abu Mus'ab, Ibn Wahb in al-Tahawi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan and Yahya ibn Bukayr in al-Bayhaqi transmitted it from Malik. ^{1 2}

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prayer. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Zayd ibn Thabit, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, whom Ibn al-Nadim describes as having compiled the surahs of his recitation in Basra, with a codex of one hundred and sixteen surahs, including Al-Khal' and Al-Hafd, and the total verses of the Qur'an at six thousand two hundred and ten 3, Mahmud ibn Labid, Abdallah ibn Ka'b, client of Uthman and Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Qays al-Ansari. Built on in the chapters on purity.