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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Rinsing the Mouth and Sniffing Water in Ablution and the Dissemination of Weaker Opinions

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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, one of the women asks that she heard one of the scholars via the media issuing a fatwa that gargling and snorting water in wudu' (ablution) is a recommended practice (sunnah), and that it is not obligatory. Is this statement correct?

Answer:
This is not correct. This is not correct, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) rinsed his mouth and sniffed water, and his action is an explanation of the Qur'an, an interpretation of the Qur'an. He also commanded rinsing the mouth and sniffing water, saying
and sniff water up into your nostrils, thoroughly, unless you are fasting.وبالغ في الاستنشاق إلا أن تكون صائما
Sunan Ibn Majah 407Sahih (Darussalam)
. This is not correct, and even if some scholars hold this view, it is not permissible for a person to answer with the weaker opinions and spread them among the people, while he knows that his own view is the preferred one and the stronger one, and then he goes and says his view is the weaker one, causing confusion among the people. This means he is showing the people whether he knows or whether he is informed?
The scholars are informed, and praise be to Allah, they know all the opinions, but they do not answer with these matters that cause confusion among the people. No, everyone who knows something spreads it among the people. Leave them to defend it, and you have it. If you want to do it, do it yourself and at your own responsibility. But for you to show this to the people and cause confusion among them, and to lower them from the stronger opinion to the weaker opinion, this is a mistake, not a hadith.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/42 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (37:36)

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