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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Book of Hajj-01b

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The reciter: Adam narrated to us, saying: Shu'bah narrated to us, saying: Sayyar Abu al-Hakam narrated to us, saying: I heard Abu Hazim say: I heard Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) say: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say:
Whoever performs Hajj for Allah's pleasure and does not have sexual relations with his wife, and does not do evil or sins then he will return (after Hajj free from all sins) as if he were born anew. من حج لله فلم يرفث ولم يفسق رجع كيوم ولدته أمه
Sahih al-Bukhari 1521


The Shaykh : Yes. "Whoever performs Hajj for Allah"—this "for" indicates sincerity, meaning a Hajj intended for the face of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
and does not commit lewdness فلم يرفث
"And does not commit lewdness" means he does not engage in sexual intercourse, as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
and no lewdness فلا رفث
The intended meaning is intercourse and its preliminaries.
and does not transgress ولم يفسق
"And does not transgress" means he does not disobey Allah, whether the disobedience is between him and his Lord or between him and creation. If sincerity is combined with avoiding prohibitions and avoiding the specific prohibitions of the state of ihram, which is lewdness, then he returns
as on the day his mother bore him كيوم ولدته أمه
. Is "day" with a fathah or a kasrah? In my opinion, it is with a kasrah, but the more eloquent form is the fathah: "as if he were born on the day his mother gave birth to him," because "day" and similar words, when attached to a built noun, are preferably built with a fathah. Now, "as if he were born on the day his mother gave birth to him" means he has no sins upon him, just as a fetus has no sins upon it when it is born, so this person is the same. The apparent meaning of the hadith includes major and minor sins. This is a matter in which scholars have differed: do these absolute hadiths include major and minor sins, or is it said that they are restricted to the case where major sins are avoided? The latter view—that they are restricted—is the opinion of the majority. They said that if the five daily prayers and Friday to Friday do not expiate sins except by avoiding major sins, even though they are better than Hajj, then Hajj is all the more so. Yes.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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