English Translation

Ya'la ibn Ubayd narrated to us: Al-A'mash narrated to us, from Shaqiq, who said: I was sitting with Abdullah and Abu Musa, and Abu Musa said: O Abu Abdur-Rahman, a man becomes junub and does not find water - should he pray? He said: No. He said: Have you not heard the statement of Ammar to Umar - that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent me and you, and I became junub and rolled myself in the earth, and we came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and told him, and he said: It would only have sufficed you to do thus - and he wiped his face and his palms in a single motion. He said: I never saw Umar satisfied with that. He said: Then how do you deal with this verse: {and if you do not find water, then perform tayammum with clean earth}? He said: If we granted them this concession, one of them, when he found the water cold, would wipe himself with earth. Al-A'mash said: I said to Shaqiq: Did he dislike it only for this reason?