Why Never Urinate in Still Water?
Islamic Rulings on Personal Hygiene and Relieving Oneself - Hadith Analysis
Summary
This lecture discusses Islamic rulings on personal hygiene and relieving oneself according to Islamic jurisprudence. Sh. Ali Mashhour covers the prohibition of urinating in still water, the permissibility of urinating while standing versus sitting, and analyzes relevant hadith narrations from Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari. The discussion includes the famous narration from Hudhayfah about the Prophet standing to urinate at a dumping ground, and contrasts it with Aisha's narration that the Prophet only urinated while sitting, demonstrating hadith reconciliation principles where affirmative narrations take precedence over negative ones.
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[Arabic recitation]
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاه والسلام على رسول الله واشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى واصحابه اجمعين اما بعد يقول المؤلف ويحرم البول في الماء الراكد صلى الله عليه was to maintain a person and that in the man that they bathed in the a peninsula at that time there were no there was not any running there was not to take anyag are takes يقول الراكد يعني الذي لا ينصرف والذي لا يجري الراكد هو ضد الجاري.
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Small body of that is not flow this isit and againason.
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نهى ان يبال في الماء الراكد جابرسن صحيح مسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول ويجوز البول قائما والقعود in time is not for us sitting literally means sitting on something meaning youright on the seat of a toilet is them that this would come back on a person's on a person's body even in a small amount in the form of spatter when a person relieves himself as care if will عليه وسلم was toeved himself both way standing and however mostly standing so much عائشه رضي الله عنها يقول عن حذيفه ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم انتهى الى سباطه قوم فبال قائما سباطه قوم يعني مثل المكان الذي يلقى فيه المزابل وهذه الاشياء ف تنحيت فقال ابنه فدنوت حتى قمت عند عقبيه فتوضا ومسح على خفيه هو قال لحذيفه ادنه يعني الماء يعني تيني بالماء حذيفه بخاري صلى الله عليه وسلم.
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Urinate place of all the mention that there was no angle for him to himself concealed from the eyes ofers and himself in a way that would maintain his cleanliness third the last thing you want to is be close to area that in the desert right anyone who lives in the desert knows that snakes and scorpions all hang out in places that so it becomes hazardous for a person to put his body in a position of vulnerability in a place where trash is discarded and food and and was other and soat the propined himself standing and the takeaway here from this narration is that it is permissible for a person to relieve himself standing as long as the person is safe and maintains his cleanliness however we know that better that a person himself sitting in in any situation unless there is a need to stand how do we know this because tells us inن من النسائي شيساز من حدثكم ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بال قائما فلا تصدقوه ما كان يبول الا جالسا هذه تنفي عائشه تنفي حذيفه يثبت والمثبت بمثابه الذي يزيد في علمي والمثبت مقدم على النافي لان النافي يحدث بما لا يعلم يعني هي لا تعلم انه بال جالسا غيرها يعلم انه بال جالسا فهي زياده علم زياده ثقه هي مقبوله عائشه الله صلى الله عليه وسلم always حذيفه never sitting never even of him urinate sitting standing what we understand from this we understand that the exceptional maority of time and instances he would always be so much so that could even him standing however science which is exercise logic and understanding and harmonizing a person who narrates something in the positive takes precedence over someone whoates a negative so someone comes and say whoever says this happened don't believe some take.
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Harmonizing both we see that very rarely would he himself standing.
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ion نسال الله سبحانه وتعالى بمنه وكرمه وجوده ان يعلمنا ما ينفعنا وان ينفعنا بما علمنا والله اعلم وصلى الله وسلم على نبينا محمد.