Ruling on praying without washing the wound and with blood flowing
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The question: He says: One day I was playing ball, and it happened that I injured my leg with a painful wound. The time for prayer came, so I performed the complete ablution, except that I did not wash the place of the wound. So I prayed while blood was flowing from me, and I continued in that state for five days. Is my prayer valid given the excuse, or is it not valid? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
The answer: The obligatory thing in this case is that you place something on the wound to hold back the blood, a bandage, meaning: a cloth wrapped around it or something similar that stops the blood and halts the bleeding, so that you wipe over this bandage. If that is not feasible, you perform dry ablution with clean earth for that, after the ablution you perform dry ablution with clean earth for that, and that suffices for the place of the wound. However, binding it with a wrap or bandage and then wiping over it is what is obligatory; because that is the followed path. If you do not do that, then making up these prayers is what is more cautious. If you make up the five days that you did without wiping or dry ablution with clean earth, that is the most cautious for you; because you were negligent in this matter, and it is a clear matter: either by binding the wound and wiping over it, or by performing dry ablution with clean earth after that; because you are able to perform dry ablution with clean earth for this wound whose place remained and was not washed. And success is from Allah. Yes.
The answer: The obligatory thing in this case is that you place something on the wound to hold back the blood, a bandage, meaning: a cloth wrapped around it or something similar that stops the blood and halts the bleeding, so that you wipe over this bandage. If that is not feasible, you perform dry ablution with clean earth for that, after the ablution you perform dry ablution with clean earth for that, and that suffices for the place of the wound. However, binding it with a wrap or bandage and then wiping over it is what is obligatory; because that is the followed path. If you do not do that, then making up these prayers is what is more cautious. If you make up the five days that you did without wiping or dry ablution with clean earth, that is the most cautious for you; because you were negligent in this matter, and it is a clear matter: either by binding the wound and wiping over it, or by performing dry ablution with clean earth after that; because you are able to perform dry ablution with clean earth for this wound whose place remained and was not washed. And success is from Allah. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.
