The ruling on repeating the prayer for one who ate camel meat and then learned that it invalidates the ablution

The questioner : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling for one who ate camel meat and did not know, then was informed after he had prayed? Does he have to repeat his prayer, even if the time has passed?

The Shaykh : Yes. First, we must know that if a person eats camel meat while in a state of ablution, his ablution is invalidated. His ablution is invalidated because the Sunnah came explicitly with this. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This indicates that there is no choice regarding the ablution from camel meat. Otherwise, there would be no difference between the two answers.
Is the obligation clear from this hadith or not? It is clear. This is because the ablution from sheep meat was made conditional on the person’s will, whereas the ablution from camel meat was commanded. The truth is what the Book and the Sunnah testify to, even if most people contradict it. For this reason, the view that camel meat invalidates the ablution is a unique position of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him). However, in reality, it is not unique to him in terms of the Shari'ah, because if the Sunnah is established with this, then it is the position of the community. Now, if one eats a small amount, the size of a date pit, does the ablution become invalid? Yes. If one eats fat, does the ablution become invalid? Fat, people, does fat invalidate it? Yes, it invalidates it, because if the speaker had not said "meat and fat," the term "meat" would have been inclusive. But if "meat and fat" is said, then the meat is one thing and the fat is another. If one eats liver, it invalidates it. It invalidates it because the liver is included in the general term "meat." And this is indicated by the fact that when Allah the Exalted said: and the prohibition included its fat, its liver, its intestines, its stomach, and everything. Accordingly, all parts of the camel invalidate the ablution.
But do we have the right to ask why the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made wudu' obligatory from camel meat but not from sheep meat? I answer, my brothers: No, by Allah, we have no right. We have no right. For Allah says: And our position regarding what Allah and His Messenger have prescribed, when we do not know its wisdom, is that we say, "We hear and we obey." Because we are servants who are commanded, so we do, and we are forbidden, so we leave. So we have no right to ask why wudu' was commanded for camel meat but not for sheep meat; we say, "We hear and we obey."
For this reason, the female jurist of this Ummah, the Mother of the Believers Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), when a woman asked her, said: "O Mother of the Believers, why does the menstruating woman make up the fast but not the prayer?" She raised an objection like any person might. Aisha said to her: "Are you a Kharijah?" meaning a Khariji. The Khawarij are called Kharijah because they rebelled against the Commander of the Believers Ali ibn Abi Talib in a place on the outskirts of Kufah called Harurah. It was among the views of the Khawarij, and their extremism in their religion and their misery in what they imposed on themselves, that the menstruating woman makes up the prayer. She said to her: "Are you a Kharijah?" She said: "No, but I am asking." She said: "That used to happen to us, and we were commanded to make up the fast but not commanded to make up the prayer." Therefore, I hope my brothers, the students of knowledge, when a ruling comes in the Qur'an and the Sunnah and its wisdom is not clear to them, , we are commanded, so let us obey, and we are forbidden, so let us stop. The conclusion is that camel meat invalidates the ablution. So if a person is in a state of ablution and eats camel meat without knowing it is camel meat, then prays without ablution, and learns about it afterwards, we tell him: "Repeat the ablution and the prayer." But your prayer before you knew it does not carry any sin. However, after you knew it, you are required to repeat the prayer. A similar case is a man who is in a state of ablution and stays overnight, then the time for prayer comes and he prays while forgetting that he had urinated. Then he remembers afterwards that he prayed without performing ablution for his urination. Does he repeat the prayer? Yes, he repeats the prayer. Forgetfulness is the brother of open sin. Yes, it remains for us to say to the brother questioner: If he has not repeated the prayer now, he must repeat it now and not wait until the time of the corresponding prayer comes, but he must make it up now.