What is the ruling on performing tawaf without ritual purity, if one forgot?
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Question : Another question: What is the ruling on performing tawaf without ritual purity, when one did not know the ruling, meaning he forgot?
Answer : We hold that ritual purity is not a condition for tawaf. Except for menstruation, for a woman cannot perform tawaf while she is menstruating, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to 'A'ishah when she menstruated:Muwatta Malik 20:236 And when it was said to him that Safiyyah had started menstruating, he said: "Is she the one who is holding us up?" As for ritual purity from minor ritual impurity, the stronger position is that it is not obligatory in tawaf, but it is a confirmed recommended practice; there is no doubt that it is better. A person should not leave off ritual purity when he intends to perform tawaf, but if it is assumed that someone performed tawaf and finished, and then comes to ask, we do not require him to repeat it, especially if he has returned to his country and finished his rites.
Answer : We hold that ritual purity is not a condition for tawaf. Except for menstruation, for a woman cannot perform tawaf while she is menstruating, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to 'A'ishah when she menstruated:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that A'isha said, "I came to Makka at the time of my period so I did not do tawaf of the House or go between Safa and Marwa. I complained to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said, 'Do what the people doing hajj do except do not do tawaf of the House and go between Safa and Marwa until you are pure.' " Malik said, concerning a woman who entered ihram for umra at the time of hajj, and she arrived in Makka during her period and so could not do tawaf of the House, "When she fears that the time (for hajj) is getting close, she gets into ihram for the hajj and sacrifices an animal. She is like someone who combines the hajj and the umra. One tawaf is enough for her. If a women starts her period after she has already done tawaf of the House and prayed, she does say between Safa and Marwa and stops at Arafa and Muzdalifa and stones the jamras but she does not do the tawaf al-ifada until she is pure and has finished her menses."
افعلي ما يفعل الحاج غير أن لا تطوفي بالبيت
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اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1411هـ - 4 — binothaimeen.net (46:46)
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