Ikhtilaf Ali wa Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (The Disagreement of Ali and Ibn Mas'ud)

The Disagreement of Ali and Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud is book 69 in the Dar al-Wafa' numbering of al-Umm, transmitted by al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman from al-Shafi'i. ¹ In it al-Shafi'i gives, with his chains, reports from Ali ibn Abi Talib and Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, and often adds that the people he addresses do not hold by them, so that the book argues against those who appeal to these two Companions and then depart from what is reported from them. ^{1 2}

• He relates from Zadhan that a man asked Ali about the ritual bath, and Ali named the bath on Friday, the day of Arafa, the day of sacrifice and the day of breaking the fast; al-Shafi'i adds that those he addresses consider none of these obligatory. ¹
• He relates that Ali said of tayammum: one strike for the face and one for the hands; and adds that they do not say this, but one strike for the face and one for the arms to the elbows. ¹
• He relates that Ali performed ablution and washed the tops of his feet, saying that had he not seen the Messenger of God ﷺ wipe the tops of his feet, he would have thought the soles more deserving. ¹ The editor quotes in a note al-Shafi'i's discussion in Ikhtilaf al-Hadith of the reports on wiping the feet, and al-Bayhaqi's remark that Abd Khayr alone narrated this from Ali and that its wording was reported from him in different ways. ²

The running heads show its chapters: ablution, bathing and tayammum, then prayer, zakat and pilgrimage, divorce and marriage, sales, blood-money, judgements, lost property, inheritance, the contracted slave, hadd penalties, and a return to prayer and pilgrimage. ^{1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14}

Al-Shafi'i does not name those he addresses in the pages read, and the museum does not identify them here without a text; only the opening of the book and its chapter heads were read.