Is wudu required after vomiting?
Making Wudu After Vomiting: Preferred Practice from the Sunnah
Summary
This lecture discusses the eighth instance in which it is preferred for a person to make wudu (ritual ablution), specifically after vomiting. Sh. Ali Mashhour analyzes hadith narrations from Jami at-Tirmidhi and Sunan Abi Dawud describing how the Prophet Muhammad vomited and subsequently made wudu. The lecture clarifies the distinction between involuntary vomiting and deliberately inducing vomiting, noting that while the latter breaks one's fast during Ramadan, making wudu after vomiting is recommended but not obligatory. Sh. Ali Mashhour explains that vomiting does not technically invalidate wudu based on the established principle that wudu is broken only by what exits the private parts, making wudu after vomiting a preferred practice (sunnah) rather than a requirement.
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Continuing in Kitab al-Tahara min al-Wajiz, the chapters regarding wudu, the sub chapter regarding the instances in which it is preferable for a person to make will do.
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The eighth instance in which it is preferred for a person to make will do is after vomiting. Whether a person makes himself vomit or a person is overcome by the urge to vomit, then a person is to make will do and this is something which is preferred. It is not obligatory. It is preferred and we'll discuss why that is in a moment.
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So, this narration is in Jami at-Tirmidhi. It's in Sunan Abi Dawud that Thawban he had narrated and Abu ad-Darda had heard that Thawban Thawban is one of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam's servants. He's one of the servants that he had. He had a number of servants though Ben is one of them and.
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They both narrate that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam vomited, he threw up and he broke his fast and made wudu. alayhi salatu wasallam And we know from the narrations that man istaqa fal yaqdi sawmahu.
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Al qay'u fa fal yutimma sawmahu In Jami at-Tirmidhi, the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam tells us that whoever is overcome by the urge to vomit and does so then their fast is correct. They don't have to make it up. However, if a person is to induce himself to vomit, then he is to make up his fast. We took this months ago in the book of fasting of this same book during Ramadan. And so.
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Sallallahu alayhi wasallam he threw up. We don't know why. Usually it's because somebody eats something that's unfavorable or something that went sour, something of the sort. And inducing oneself to vomit is one of the prophetic prophetic ways of remedy, remedying a sick stomach the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had instructed this and so with respect to fasting and with respect to will do they are two different rulings with respect to fasting as we heard if a person makes himself vomit then his fast is his fast is over and he is to make the day up if it's an obligatory day of fast however if he were to vomit then you know unintentionally then his fast is still correct in this narration we have that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam vomited and broke his fast and made will do so it's unclear from this narration which of the two occurred with him however it's largely inconsequential because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam could have felt unwell unwell enough to break his fast for the day alaihis salatu wasallam but the point here that's taken from the narration is that he made will do now this act of making will do he didn't say make will do if you vomit there's no narration that we only have this narration and we have another narration and a sunan on the authority of Ali ibn abi talib radiyallahu anhu that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam vomited and then made will do and it could be the same same incident and so him merely doing it and not commanding it, this doesn't articulate obligation. This articulates that at best, it is preferred. That is to say, that is it possible that he broke his wudu with something other than the vomiting and him making wudu after vomiting was incidental? Is that possible? It's possible. There's no way to be certain of that. As the scholars and the fuqaha have mentioned in their discussions regarding this topic. And so, based on these points and others, if a person is to throw up, it is preferred at best that he make wudu. However, wudu is not broken by the mere act of vomiting or by what is less than that, which is called al-qalas. Well, qalas is bile, right, that comes up from heartburn or something like that. It comes up into the mouth. This is called al-qalas. I then al- taqayyu, which is full full-on vomiting. And some of the madhahib, it is considered obligatory that a person make wudu after vomiting, that this is considered to be a an invalidator of wudu, that it will break a person's wudu. However, these are the only evidences for that, along with saying, you know, it's something that went into the stomach and then and back out. But, we've largely seen the pattern of what breaks the wudu. And the pattern and the essence of what breaks a person's wudu is what comes out of the private parts. This is what breaks a person's wudu. As we took before the statement of Ibn.
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He says that wudu is from that which comes out of the body or and not what goes into the body. We discussed this before. And so, the point here is that it remains a sunnah that if a person were to vomit, that this person is encouraged to make wudu. Obligated? No. Encouraged? Yes. and you will hear me now rush down there and your team now talk one hour in the world you that will go to a lie will will allow Adam will sell a lot of selling a lot of.
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