When Can Muslims Join Their Daily Prayers?
Abnormal Bleeding, Ghusl and Wudu, and the Rules of Joining Prayers
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour continues his analysis of Al-Wajeez, focusing on the third preferred instance for bathing in Islamic jurisprudence. He discusses the case of a woman experiencing abnormal bleeding after her menstrual cycle has ended, explaining that she should perform wudu for each prayer at minimum, with ghusl being preferable. Sh. Ali Mashhour then addresses a hadith narration about a woman with this condition, using it as a springboard to explain the Islamic rules regarding joining prayers (jama'a). He clarifies that joining prayers during times of hardship involves praying one prayer at the end of its time and another at the beginning of the next prayer's time, and explains how travelers and those experiencing illness may join their daily prayers according to Islamic jurisprudence.
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Alhamdulillah. Continuing.
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In the book of purification of Alwaji, the chapter regarding the preferred Third instances in which we are taught by the prophet sallall.aii wasallam to bathe the preferred instances when a person is encouraged to bathe and we've mentioned two thus far. Number one, he mentions bathing after every encounter or after every time a person has relations with his wife or with her husband for a person to bathe. if they wish to do this again to bathe as well. This is and we discussed this yesterday. The second is as we mentioned yesterday is a woman a female who has a medical issue where her menstrual cycle has finished. It is completed. However, blood continues to come out of her private parts even after her menstrual cycle has concluded and the blood is a different shade. It's very different type of blood. It's very known. It's well known and it is bright red bleeding or close to that as is mentioned in the books of f and so a person this her menstrual cycle is completed. So she is to bathe and pray. However, this blood continues to come out and so she has the ruling of al- is this kind of instance and this goes for any person and this is usually what falls in the books of into the chapters regarding or the books regarding that is someone whom the their they have a medical issue in which their body continues to do what would otherwise break a person's woo whether that be gas whether that be urine whether that be in this instance you know bleeding etc and so what is she to do well it's permissible posible and the the least that she is to do is to make woo for each salah. However, the best thing to do is to bathe for each salah, right? And depending on how long this is the lasts, this could be more or less practical and suited for her particular situation. for.
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Hadith.
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Oh, Fore.
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So here we have a narration on the authority of who narrates that a woman by the had this issue of during the prophet sallall.aii wasallam's epic and the prophet sallallah.aii Wasam commanded her to make for each salah. Now we will come to realize later that this is the highest level, right? Because he commands her to make for each salah. However, later when we get to the chapter regarding, we'll see that the minimum is that she make wudoo for each salah. And this chapter's purpose is merely to mention the times when it is preferred that a person bathe. in another wording of this same narration, the prophet sallall.aii wasallam commanded her to make earlier and to delay later. Now notice very closely the wording here.
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Yakunu walked yakun.
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So here we have something very curious. We have to pay attention to this and that is is this when he says to delay and hasten. So to bathe and then delay and hasten. He says and then to bathe and delay and hasten and then to make for this is what he tells her. Now is this joining the prayers? Why not? So when we join the prayers, we remember we talked about this before. Before the five daily prayers were made, five daily prayers. How many prayers were there? Three. Remember there were three. There was the time, the daytime prayer, the nighttime prayer, the time, and the prayer. There were three prayers on the night of and they were all what how many two except for was always three but everything else was twoish tells us this is how was before. Then he went on and the prayers were made five and the resident was made to pray the two into four except for and that it stayed the same for the traveler. Notice the wording that that uses and it remained the same for the traveler. So when we say it remained the same for the traveler that means that the traveler has three times of salah and it is at each except for soar when we join those two prayers for any reason for any reason whether it's illness fear war whatever there's many reasons a person can join the prayers The two prayers of the day are joined together and the two prayers of the night are joined together. We don't ever join the day and night prayers together. Correct? So we don't pray we don't join for instance and we don't join and for instance and we don't join for instance because we have daytime prayers we have nighttime prayers and then we have fud. Now understanding this when a person travels those five prayers now become three again and vhar's time and's time are joined into one long time. So a person has to make and from the start of till the end of and the person has from the beginning of to the end of and the time for never changes. This is how we join prayers. So let's say it is raining very hard in a way that makes it you know dangerous or very difficult to come to the masid and so we join the prayers because of rain let's say this is something that I haven't seen here have you guys do you guys have you ever done this before here because the rain here in the desert is usually you know pretty fairly sporadic. It's not continuous. But in other places, other regions, it can snow very hard. It can it can ice up the roads, etc. Even with our modern concrete and our modern four-wheel drives, and it is not only difficult to come to the masjid, but hazardous. And so, we join the prayers. So, when we join the prayers, we join either early or late. So we make we make in the time of with it or we make after its time in the beginning time of this is how we would join it. We make in time or we make at's time correct now in this narration the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam told her to delay and to hasten and to delay and hasten. The scholars have understood this narration in two different ways. Some say this is actually joining it it appears to be joining but it's actually not joining prayers. So the idea is you make at its very last minute by that time when you finish's time is in then you make right away and then you wait for until it's just the last few minutes you make and then by the time you're finished it's so you make but let me ask you a Question. What is the purpose of joining prayers? We all know. Huh? Yeah. Right. To make it easy. Is it easier to just pray the prayers on time or to wait till the last second and then time your prayer? Which one is more difficult? Which one demands more vigilance? The second type. Then that's not how this narration should be understood and that's the opinion of the majority of the scholars and the form is that no the wording of the narration is curious. However, this is merely joining the prayers for someone who is experiencing an illness. And we will discuss this in the chapter that is specified for this which is these chapters are specifically for this issue and we will discuss this issue inshallah when we arrive at it. But a woman who has this, she may join her prayers.
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Oh yeah. How you doing this time? All right. How you doing? How are things? Better.