Explanation of the Book of Purification-17

The Shaykh : He said: "And from Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

The eye (when awake) is the string of the anus (to stop air escaping), and if the two eyes sleep the string is untied

العين وكاء السه ، فإذا نامت العينان استطلق الوكاء

Bulugh al-Maram 80

It was narrated by Ahmad and al-Tabarani, and he added:

And whoever sleeps, let him perform ablution

ومن نام فليتوضأ

This addition in this hadith is with Abu Dawud from the hadith of Ali, without the phrase:

The tie is released

استطلق الوكاء

, and in both chains of narration there is weakness":
First: From the technical perspective, it would have been more fitting for the author to place this hadith when?
At the first hadith: , but perhaps he (may Allah have mercy on him) did not find this hadith until after he had written the chapter, so he appended it. Otherwise, it is not hidden from any person that presenting hadiths in one topic is better than separating them.
We return to this hadith: The eye is the known seeing organ.
And al-sih, with a kasrah on the haa, is the anus.
And al-wikaa' is what a bag or the like is tied with.
Is the meaning understood now? The eye is?
The student: The seeing organ.

The Shaykh : And al-sih: the anus, and al-wikaa': the rope with which a bag or the like is tied so that what is in it does not spill out.
And he did not say: "If the eye sleeps," because the eye in the first instance refers to the genus, so it includes the singular and the plural.
: Meaning it released and the person did not notice it. So in this hadith there is an indication that the sleep that invalidates the ablution is only that by which the tie is released, which is deep sleep in which the anus relaxes, and wind comes out without the person noticing it.
And in it is the benefit: that wind is an invalidator of the ablution, and that came explicitly in his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): .