The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-10a

The reciter: And Muhammad ibn Rafi' narrated to me, saying: 'Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, saying: Ibn Jurayj informed us, saying: Nafi' informed me, saying: 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar narrated to us: .

The Shaykh : Some scholars have cited this hadith as evidence that sleep does not invalidate the ablution, based on the statement: "We slept, then we woke up, then we slept, then we woke up." However, there is no proof in this when it is combined with the other hadiths. The hadith of Safwan ibn 'Asal (may Allah be pleased with him), which is authentic regarding wiping over leather socks, states: This hadith is ambiguous in two respects. The first is that the statement "We slept, then we woke up" could refer to a light sleep that does not invalidate the ablution, or it could refer to a heavy sleep. However, they performed the ablution but did not mention it because it is a known matter. In any case, when we have a piece of evidence that does not allow for two interpretations and another piece of evidence that allows for two interpretations, the latter is interpreted according to the former, based on the obligation to interpret the ambiguous according to the clear.