An incontinent person should make a new wudoo’ for each obligatory prayer
Question: 2723
I understand that a person who finds it
difficult to remain tahir due to circumstances beyond their control, eg urination problem
etc it is not necessary to continually clean up if it is too much of a strain and the
person should do fresh wudo before every prayer. What if the prayer for some reason is
prayed late eg if ‘Asr is done 30 minutes before Maghrib, is a fresh wudo for maghrib
necessary for this small time gap? Also if one does wudo for Juma’h prayer one hour early
and sits in the mosque waiting for prayer is this wudo adequate or is another one
necessary, if it is alright then will the wudo last all the way until just before ‘Asr
time?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
The person who is suffering from incontinence should make a new and
separate wudoo for each prayer when the time comes, even if he has just made
wudoo for another prayer a short time before. This is because the Prophet
taught the woman who suffers from istihaadah (prolonged non-menstrual vaginal bleeding) to
do this. Aaishah said: Faatimah bint Abi Hubaysh came to the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allaah, I
am a woman who experiences istihaadah and I do not become clean from bleeding. Should I
forget about salaah? He said: No, that is from a vein; it is not menses. When
your period starts, then stop praying, and when it ends, wash the blood from your body and
pray again. Abu Muaawiyah said in his hadeeth: He said: Do
wudoo for each prayer, until the time for the next prayer comes
Abu Eesaa said: The hadeeth of Aaishah is a saheeh hasan hadeeth,
and this is the opinion of more than one scholar among the Companions of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the Taabieen. It is also the opinion
of Sufyaan al-Thawri, Maalik, Ibn al-Mubaarak and al-Shaafii that when the woman who
suffers from istihaadah finishes her regular period, she should do ghusl, then do
wudoo for each prayer.
(Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 116; the hadeeth was
reported by al-Bukhaari, no. 221).
Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The
ruling on non-menstrual blood (istihaadah) is the same as the ruling on anything that
breaks wudoo: she should do wudoo for each prayer, but she should not pray
more than one fard prayer with that wudoo, whether she is praying on time or is
making up the prayer later, because of the apparent meaning of the hadeeth, You
should do wudoo for each prayer. This is the opinion of the majority of
scholars.
(Fath al-Baari, Kitaab al-hayd, Bab al-istihaadah).
The same ruling applies to the person who suffers from continual incontinence or wind. You
can pray as many naafil prayers as you like with the wudoo you made for a fard
prayer, until the time for that fard prayer is over. And Allaah knows best.
Source:
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
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