What is the grammatical parsing of the hadith: "Allah does not accept the prayer of any of you when he has a state of ritual impurity until he performs ablution," and an explanation of its meaning?
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
First: O our Shaykh, I ask Allah the Most High, the Magnificent, to prolong your life in His obedience.
The Shaykh : And all of you as well.
The questioner : We ask you to parse this hadith, may Allah bless you:Sunan Abi Dawud 60Sahih (Al-Albani).
The Shaykh : The grammatical status?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, its parsing is:
"La" is a negation particle; "yaqbalu" is a present tense verb, raised, and its sign of being raised is a visible dammah at its end; the noble name "Allah" is the doer of "yaqbalu"; "salata" is the object of "yaqbalu"; "salata" is a possessive noun; "ahadikum" is the possessed noun; "ahad" is a possessive noun; the "kaf" is the possessed noun; the "mim" is the sign of the plural; "idha" is a temporal adverb; "ahdatha" is a past tense verb built on fathah; its doer is a hidden pronoun, permissible to omit, estimated to be "he"; "hatta" is a particle of limit; "wayatawadda" is a present tense verb, lowered by a hidden "an" after "hatta"; its doer is a hidden pronoun, permissible to omit, estimated to be "he." This is the parsing of the hadith.
As for its meaning: it is that Allah the Exalted does not accept the prayer from a person when he has a state of ritual impurity, whether minor or major, or only minor?
The questioner : All of it.
The Shaykh : Minor or major?
The questioner : Both.
The Shaykh : No, minor, because of His saying:, and if it were major, would He not say?
"Until he performs the full ritual bath,".
The apparent meaning of the hadith is that there is no difference between the forgetful and the ignorant, and the remembering and the knowledgeable. So if a person has a state of ritual impurity and then prays while forgetting that he has it, it is obligatory for him to perform ablution and repeat the prayer. And if a person prays while in a state of ritual impurity but he is ignorant of the impurity, such as if he eats camel meat and does not know that it is camel meat, then he stands and prays, and then he is informed that it is camel meat, it is obligatory for him to perform ablution and repeat the prayer. Yes.
First: O our Shaykh, I ask Allah the Most High, the Magnificent, to prolong your life in His obedience.
The Shaykh : And all of you as well.
The questioner : We ask you to parse this hadith, may Allah bless you:
Allaah, the Exalted, does not accept the prayer of any of you when you are defiled until you performed ablution.
لا يَقبل الله صلاة أحدكم إذا أحدث حتّى يتوضّأThe Shaykh : The grammatical status?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : All right, its parsing is:
"La" is a negation particle; "yaqbalu" is a present tense verb, raised, and its sign of being raised is a visible dammah at its end; the noble name "Allah" is the doer of "yaqbalu"; "salata" is the object of "yaqbalu"; "salata" is a possessive noun; "ahadikum" is the possessed noun; "ahad" is a possessive noun; the "kaf" is the possessed noun; the "mim" is the sign of the plural; "idha" is a temporal adverb; "ahdatha" is a past tense verb built on fathah; its doer is a hidden pronoun, permissible to omit, estimated to be "he"; "hatta" is a particle of limit; "wayatawadda" is a present tense verb, lowered by a hidden "an" after "hatta"; its doer is a hidden pronoun, permissible to omit, estimated to be "he." This is the parsing of the hadith.
As for its meaning: it is that Allah the Exalted does not accept the prayer from a person when he has a state of ritual impurity, whether minor or major, or only minor?
The questioner : All of it.
The Shaykh : Minor or major?
The questioner : Both.
The Shaykh : No, minor, because of His saying:
until he performs ablution
حتّى يتوضّأ"Until he performs the full ritual bath,"
Allah does not accept the prayer of a person when he has a state of ritual impurity until he performs ablution
لا يقبل الله صلاة الإنسان إذا أحدث حتى يتوضّأThe apparent meaning of the hadith is that there is no difference between the forgetful and the ignorant, and the remembering and the knowledgeable. So if a person has a state of ritual impurity and then prays while forgetting that he has it, it is obligatory for him to perform ablution and repeat the prayer. And if a person prays while in a state of ritual impurity but he is ignorant of the impurity, such as if he eats camel meat and does not know that it is camel meat, then he stands and prays, and then he is informed that it is camel meat, it is obligatory for him to perform ablution and repeat the prayer. Yes.