The ruling on using the tasbih ring and the tasbih beads, and the tasbih without wudu'

The questioner:
He asks about the tasbih ring if he uses it and recites the tasbih without wudu'?

The Shaykh:
The tasbih ring.

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
What is the tasbih ring?

The questioner:
It is a ring with numbers, counting by number.

The Shaykh:
No, my brother, do not use it. Do not use the ring for counting the tasbih. Recite the tasbih without the ring. Use your fingers for counting.

The questioner:
And the tasbih beads, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh:
Or the tasbih beads, if he does not believe in any virtue in them, and only wants to count, and does not want any reward or merit in them. Yes.

The questioner:
And the tasbih without wudu'.

The Shaykh:
There is no harm in that. Wudu' is only for the prayer, which requires purity. As for dhikr, there is no harm in remembering Allah without wudu'. Likewise, reciting the Qur'an: if it is from the mushaf, one must touch the mushaf, so wudu' is required. If it is from memory, one recites the Qur'an from memory without wudu', except if he is in a state of janabah, in which case he does not recite the Qur'an, not even one verse. Yes.