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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on one who sleeps in the mosque and then gets up to pray?

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Question:
Some people sleep in the mosque, and when the iqamah is called, they get up and pray. What is the ruling?

Answer:
Wudu is required. If a person sleeps deeply, lying on his side or reclining, this invalidates the wudu. In the hadith of Safwan ibn 'Asal, we were commanded not to remove our leather socks
Except from major ritual impurity, but from urinationإلا من جنابة لكن من بول
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 1:522
and [for] urination and sleep. Sleep was mentioned alongside urination and defecation, indicating that it invalidates the wudu.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم مَن ينام في المسجد ثم يقوم فيصلي؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com

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