A person made a mistake in the order of wudu, for example, he wiped his head before washing his hands, and he knew this. Is his prayer valid with this wudu?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : A person made a mistake in the order of wudu, for example, he wiped his head before washing his hands, and he knew this. Is his prayer valid with this wudu?
The Shaykh : His prayer is not valid because this wudu is not valid, since he started by wiping his head before washing his hands. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:6].
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed wudu in the correct order. If a person reverses the order of his wudu, he has done something for which there is no command from Allah and His Messenger. It is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said:Sahih Muslim 1718b, meaning: it is rejected. If the wudu is rejected, it becomes invalid. If he prays with this wudu, he has prayed with an invalid prayer using an invalid wudu, so his prayer is not accepted, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Sunan Ibn Majah 274Sahih (Darussalam).
The Shaykh : His prayer is not valid because this wudu is not valid, since he started by wiping his head before washing his hands. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:
O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاةِ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ وَامْسَحُوا بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِThe Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed wudu in the correct order. If a person reverses the order of his wudu, he has done something for which there is no command from Allah and His Messenger. It is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: