Do the two hadiths (so we wiped up to the shoulders that day) (and they struck the earth with their palms and did not take any of the earth, so they wiped their faces with a single wipe, then

The questioner : The hadiths of tayammum, in some of them: "So we wiped up to the shoulders that day." And it came so as well.

Another questioner : Eid, Eid!

The Shaykh : How? How?

The questioner : In the hadiths of tayammum, in some of them in Ibn Majah: "So we wiped up to the shoulders that day." I said: May Allah preserve you, it is authentic. And in some of them, and in Ibn Majah as well: "So they struck the earth with their palms, and did not take any of the earth, so they wiped their faces with a single wipe, then they returned and struck the dust with their palms a second time, so they wiped with their hands ." I said: It is authentic. Does this indicate the prescription of tayammum up to the shoulders and the two strikes as well?

The Shaykh : No, you will ask why?!

The questioner : I am waiting for the why.

The Shaykh: Mmm.

The questioner : Because he did not understand the rules.

Another questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Hehehe.

The questioner : He does not apply the rules.

The Shaykh : Do you know the story of 'Umar rolling in the earth?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Is it permissible?

The questioner : 'Umar rolling in the earth?

The Shaykh : Is it permissible?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : Why?

The questioner : Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) clarified it afterwards.

The Shaykh : That is the answer, that is the answer.

The questioner : What is narrated in the story is his action, our Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : What is narrated in the hadith is his action.

The Shaykh : That is it, that's all!

The questioner : As for agreement or disapproval, other narrations have come regarding it.

The Shaykh : It is this.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Therefore, from the chapter of: "The best of speech is what is concise and indicates," your answer is my answer, and may Allah reward you with good, our brother is not yet convinced!!

The questioner : No, no, I am convinced, Shaykh, but.

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner : But the intention.

Another questioner : But I did not expect your answer.

The questioner : Excuse me, excuse me, here in the story of 'Umar we learned the later knowledge, so here in this case as well, we learned the later knowledge?

The Shaykh : It is not necessary for us to note this precision, earlier or later, but we know that the Shari'ah settled on the basis of his saying (peace be upon him): . This action, considering that it occurred from some of the Companions, and it does not contain that the Messenger (peace be upon him) knew of it and approved them. Rather, even if it were in the story that he knew of it and approved them: this was only before the final report on the description of tayammum, which is the hadith I mentioned just now: . So it is not necessary for us to know the earlier and later in every matter. No, rather this is in the case of severe contradiction, where we may be forced at that time to know the chronology. But here, but here it is sufficient for you to know that the jurists of the Ummah differed on two points regarding tayammum: some say first, it is a single strike, and some say two strikes, and the first is the correct and established position in Sahih and others. Second: some say the two hands, of course with the face, and some say with the two hands the forearms, and this is the weaker and weak position. But did you know an imam among the imams of the Muslims that tayammum is up to the shoulders?

The questioner : No.

The Shaykh : Here applies a rule which is also one of the very important principles of jurisprudence, and it is: "When Muslims differ on two opinions, or three, the knowledgeable Muslim jurist has the right to choose from these opinions that occurred what he sees as closest to correctness. As for inventing a new opinion that contradicts all the preceding opinions, that falls under the warning of His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He): ." And the truth is that this is of the precise jurisprudence that the majority of Islamic preachers today overlook, who think that even if he is a scholar of his time in the Qur'an, Sunnah, and hadith, and so on, that he has the choice. It is not permissible for us to invent a third opinion based on an opinion or ijtihad or something similar. Here, this hadith that you are asking about—Allahu Akbar—along with the answer we mentioned from which we have no escape, also applies to it that the practice of the Muslims has not been on tayammum up to the armpits!

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : And you, that is enough, ohAbu Layla .

The questioner : May Allah preserve you, oh Shaykh, the brother, calm down, the question, may Allah honor you.