Doubt regarding ritual purity during prayer, followed by the confirmation of purity
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If one doubts during the prayer whether he performed the ablution or not, and he continues in the prayer, then after finishing it he becomes certain that he was in a state of ritual purity. His question is: Does that affect the prayer, because he doubted his purity during it?
Answer:
He remained in a state of ritual purity and entered the prayer while in a state of ritual purity, so his prayer is valid. The doubts are whispers, and whispers do not invalidate the prayer. If whispers invalidated the prayer, the prayer of most people would not be valid. But this is from the whispers, and it is not [a valid doubt]. Yes, the great principle was previously mentioned to you: certainty is not removed by doubt. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If one doubts during the prayer whether he performed the ablution or not, and he continues in the prayer, then after finishing it he becomes certain that he was in a state of ritual purity. His question is: Does that affect the prayer, because he doubted his purity during it?
Answer:
He remained in a state of ritual purity and entered the prayer while in a state of ritual purity, so his prayer is valid. The doubts are whispers, and whispers do not invalidate the prayer. If whispers invalidated the prayer, the prayer of most people would not be valid. But this is from the whispers, and it is not [a valid doubt]. Yes, the great principle was previously mentioned to you: certainty is not removed by doubt. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من أبواب موجبات الغسل — islamhouse.com (50:25)
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