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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Wudu from eating camel meat and repeating the prayer

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. The questioner says: We prayed Maghrib, and after the prayer ended, it became clear to us that the meat we had eaten was camel meat. As for me, I repeated the prayer and the wudu. Some of the others asked a student of knowledge, and he told them: “It is not obligatory for you to repeat it, because the majority hold that wudu after eating camel meat is recommended (mustahabb).” He said that this is the practice of Abu Bakr, 'Umar, and 'Uthman (may Allah be pleased with them). Is this statement correct?

Answer:
This is upon their responsibility; this is upon their responsibility. And the responsibility of the one who issued them the fatwa: the practice and the fatwa in our land is that camel meat breaks the wudu, and there is an authentic hadith regarding this. So whoever wants to clear his conscience, he repeats the prayer. And whoever wants to go to the place of relief, that is upon his conscience. How is that? Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من أبواب صفة الوضوء فرضه وسننه — islamhouse.com (44:13)

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