Wiping over a bandage and a cast, and its conditions
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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! If a person has a bandage on a wound or something similar, is wiping over it sufficient, or is it necessary to wipe as part of tayammum?
The Shaykh:
If he wipes over the wound, that is sufficient. If he has a bandage, he wipes over the bandage. If the wound is not harmed by wiping, he wipes over it. If he fears that wiping will harm it, he places a bandage on it and wipes over the bandage. The bandage should be the size of the need; he wraps it around it.
The questioner:
Are there conditions for wiping over a bandage, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Even if he put it on while not in a state of ritual purity, the correct view is that he cannot achieve purity in that case; because such situations befall people without their choice. One may be injured while not in a state of ritual purity, so he puts on the bandage even if he is not in a state of ritual purity, and praise be to Allah. It has no specific time limit. If it remains for many days, he wipes over it. This is unlike leather socks, which are limited to one day and one night.
Your Eminence the Shaykh! If a person has a bandage on a wound or something similar, is wiping over it sufficient, or is it necessary to wipe as part of tayammum?
The Shaykh:
If he wipes over the wound, that is sufficient. If he has a bandage, he wipes over the bandage. If the wound is not harmed by wiping, he wipes over it. If he fears that wiping will harm it, he places a bandage on it and wipes over the bandage. The bandage should be the size of the need; he wraps it around it.
The questioner:
Are there conditions for wiping over a bandage, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Even if he put it on while not in a state of ritual purity, the correct view is that he cannot achieve purity in that case; because such situations befall people without their choice. One may be injured while not in a state of ritual purity, so he puts on the bandage even if he is not in a state of ritual purity, and praise be to Allah. It has no specific time limit. If it remains for many days, he wipes over it. This is unlike leather socks, which are limited to one day and one night.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من أسئلة في باب الاستتار عن الأعين للمغتسل وجواز تجرده في الخلوة — islamhouse.com (18:39)
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