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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The persistence of the purity of tayammum upon the arrival of the time for the second prayer

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a person performs tayammum for prayer and remains in that state of purity until the time for the second prayer arrives, does he perform tayammum again, or does he pray with his original purity from the first tayammum?

Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement regarding the nature of tayammum: is it merely a permission to pray, or does it remove the state of ritual impurity? The stronger position is that it removes the impurity, just as water does, because it is a substitute for water, and a substitute carries the ruling of the thing it replaces. Therefore, it takes the place of water, and the tayammum does not become invalid when the time for prayer ends. However, some scholars hold that it becomes invalid when the time ends, because they consider it merely a permission to pray. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب اشتراط دخول الوقت للتيمم — islamhouse.com (46:04)

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