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Sahih Muslim 2966bصحيح مسلم 2966b
وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ وَقَالَ حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُنَا لَيَضَعُ كَمَا تَضَعُ الْعَنْزُ مَا يَخْلِطُهُ بِشَىْءٍ .
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Isma'il b. Khalid with the same chain of transmitters and the words are: " One amongst us would relieve himself as the goats do without anything mixing with its excrement."
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
يحيى بن يحيى بن بكر ← وكيع بن الجراح بن مليح ← إسماعيل بن أبي خالد ← قيس بن أبي حازم ← سعد بن أبي وقاص واسمه
Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Bakr → Waki' ibn al-Jarrah ibn Malih → Isma'il ibn Abi Khalid → Qais → Sa`d