What is the nature of sleep and the duration that invalidates the ablution?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh! What is the nature of sleep and the duration that invalidates the ablution? And if someone sleeps during a lecture like this while sitting in his place, intending to pray the 'Isha' prayer, does his ablution become invalid, and is he required to renew his ablution or not?
Answer:
Sleeping while sitting does not invalidate the ablution. Sleeping while sitting, without leaning on anything, does not invalidate the ablution. This is because the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to wait for the prayer with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) until their heads would nod from sleep. They would then stand up and pray without performing the ablution, because they were sitting. As for a person who is lying down or leaning on something, if he sleeps, his ablution is invalidated. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh! What is the nature of sleep and the duration that invalidates the ablution? And if someone sleeps during a lecture like this while sitting in his place, intending to pray the 'Isha' prayer, does his ablution become invalid, and is he required to renew his ablution or not?
Answer:
Sleeping while sitting does not invalidate the ablution. Sleeping while sitting, without leaning on anything, does not invalidate the ablution. This is because the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to wait for the prayer with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) until their heads would nod from sleep. They would then stand up and pray without performing the ablution, because they were sitting. As for a person who is lying down or leaning on something, if he sleeps, his ablution is invalidated. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما هي صفة النوم ومدته المبطلة للوضوء؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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