The Indication of Hudhayfah’s Hadith Regarding Urinating While Standing

The questioner:
If Allah protects you, Your Eminence the Shaykh, does the hadith of Aishah indicate the permissibility of urinating while standing?

The Shaykh:
The hadith of Hudhayfah. Yes.

The questioner:
But does it not increase?

The Shaykh:
If there is a need for it, then what is necessitated by need is better done sitting, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did in the house.

The presenter:
O Allah, send prayers and peace upon him.

The Shaykh:
Sitting is better if there is no need to stand. However, if there is a need, such as a place that is not suitable for sitting, or if sitting there might result in some urine splashing on him, or for other reasons, or haste, or pain from sitting, then there is no harm, praise be to Allah.

The questioner:
Praise be to Allah, may Allah protect you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. Does not this become a cause for this person to be hit by a spray of urine when urinating while standing is permissible? But does it not become a cause for him to be hit by a spray?

The Shaykh:
If the urine is on soft ground, nothing happens. If it becomes a puddle like manure or the like, nothing happens. The latrine is a collection of dirt; this becomes a puddle, and the urine does not cover it. Yes.