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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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He performed wudu, leaving the site of the wound, and entered into prayer, then remembered during it that he had not performed tayammum

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The first question of Fatwa number ( 296 )
Q1: If a person performs wudu and has a wound on his hand that water does not reach, and he is supposed to perform tayammum for it, but he forgets and prays without tayammum, then he remembers while in his prayer and performs tayammum without breaking his prayer, and continues his prayer, what is the ruling on this prayer: is it invalid or valid?
A1: Praise be to Allah alone, and blessings and peace be upon His Messenger, his family, and his Companions.. And after:
If there is a wound in one of the places of wudu that cannot be washed or wiped, because doing so would cause the wound to worsen or delay its healing, then it is obligatory for this person to perform tayammum. So, if a person performs wudu leaving the site of the wound and enters into prayer, then remembers during it that he had not performed tayammum, he must perform tayammum and restart his prayer from the beginning; because what passed of his prayer before the tayammum is not valid, including the takbir of ihram, so his entry into the prayer was not valid at all; because ritual purity is a condition for the validity of the prayer, and leaving a place of wudu or part of it means the wudu is not valid with it. And when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man with a spot on his foot the size of a dirham that water had not reached, he ordered him to repeat the wudu. And for this person about whom the question was asked, since washing and wiping became impossible for him, it became obligatory to move to the substitute, which is tayammum; due to the generality of the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and find no water, then seek clean earthوَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ مَرْضَى أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ أَوْ جَاءَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ مِنَ الْغَائِطِ أَوْ لامَسْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَلَمْ تَجِدُوا مَاءً فَتَيَمَّمُوا صَعِيدًا طَيِّبًا
[An-Nisa 4:43]
, and due to the story of the man with the head wound in Abu Dawud, from Jabir that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
It was enough for him to perform tayammum and to pour some drops of water or bind a bandage over the wound (the narrator Musa was doubtful); then he should have wiped over it and washed the rest of his body.إنما كان يكفيه أن يتيمم ويعصر، أو يعصب -شك موسى - على جرحه خرقة، ثم يمسح عليها ويغسل سائر جسده
Sunan Abi Dawud 336
the hadith. If this person about whom the question was asked did not repeat that prayer
he must repeat it. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
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