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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Wiping the head once and washing it after wiping

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Question:
Wiping the head, Your Eminence the Shaykh, is one pass sufficient, or is it necessary to repeat the wiping?

Answer:
The Sunnah is one pass, but one starts with the front of the head, then moves both hands to the back, then returns them to the place where he started, as established in the two Sahihs from the hadith of Abdullah ibn Zayd ibn Asim al-Ansari, who reported that he wiped his head, so
beginning from the front and taking them to the back of his head up to the nape of the neck and then brought them to the front again from where he had startedبدأ بمقدم رأسه بيديه حتى ذهب بهما إلى قباه، ثم ردهما إلى المكان الذي بدأ منه
Sahih al-Bukhari 185
, and in the weak hadith of al-Rabi' it is stated that he started from the back, and this is weak. The Sunnah is to start with the front, and this is the best, then he moves them to the back of his head, then returns them in one pass, with one water.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من باب بيان زوال تطهيره — islamhouse.com (2:34)

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