The ruling on performing one part of the ablution before another
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person performs one of his limbs in the ablution before another, either forgetting or out of ignorance, and then prays, is his ablution valid and his prayer?
The Shaykh:
Yes. Starting with the right side in the ablution is a recommended practice (sunnah). You begin with the right sides; this is the recommended practice. So if you start with the left, wash it, and then wash the right, it is valid, but it is contrary to what is best. Yes.
The questioner:
And if he performs one limb before another, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Before the other of the two hands? It does not contradict the hands and the feet; it does not contradict them. But if he performs the hand before the face, no, that is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person performs one of his limbs in the ablution before another, either forgetting or out of ignorance, and then prays, is his ablution valid and his prayer?
The Shaykh:
Yes. Starting with the right side in the ablution is a recommended practice (sunnah). You begin with the right sides; this is the recommended practice. So if you start with the left, wash it, and then wash the right, it is valid, but it is contrary to what is best. Yes.
The questioner:
And if he performs one limb before another, Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Before the other of the two hands? It does not contradict the hands and the feet; it does not contradict them. But if he performs the hand before the face, no, that is not permissible. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-22-07-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (1:09:00)
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