The ruling on one who puts his hands in the vessel after sleeping at night while forgetting
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person gets up from his sleep at night, performs wudu, and puts his hands in the vessel before washing them, then prays, is it obligatory for him to repeat the wudu and the prayer, given that he was forgetting?
Answer:
It is not obligatory for him, even if he did it intentionally. What is obligatory for him is that he has left an obligatory act; he commits a sin by leaving it intentionally. As for his purity, it is valid. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a person gets up from his sleep at night, performs wudu, and puts his hands in the vessel before washing them, then prays, is it obligatory for him to repeat the wudu and the prayer, given that he was forgetting?
Answer:
It is not obligatory for him, even if he did it intentionally. What is obligatory for him is that he has left an obligatory act; he commits a sin by leaving it intentionally. As for his purity, it is valid. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب بيان زوال تطهيره — islamhouse.com (37:19)
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