Fatwa ID: 07182
Answered by: Maulana Sheik Abdel Ahad Imrit
Question:
So the other day (I can’t remember exactly when) but I’m pretty sure it was a day ago or two now I was going to do wudu and I was squeezing the mop into the sink to wipe the floor with it as there was a lot of water on the floor and as I was doing this, I had felt some wetness at the back of me and I thought it was from the mop which would’ve been impure but I wasn’t sure where this wet feeling from my back came from so I just ignored it and assumed that it was nothing so I carried on with my wudu and prayed.
This is a day or two after now. I prayed fajr and I suddenly had this doubt about maybe the wet feeling was from the mop but that’s never happened before. I did wash it off after I prayed but does that mean I need to repeat my prayers? as I’m not sure if this wet feeling was even an impurity.
Please help
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Answer:
A jurist has provided the following example: if Person A, whose feet are impure, walks into a waterhole, and Person B subsequently passes through the same waterhole, the ruling of impurity will not apply unless it is definitively known that Person B has touched the exact spot where Person A’s feet were.
Additionally, it has been stated that the ruling of impurity will not be applied as long as no visible traces of the impurity are present.
This is in line with the legal maxim, “there is no consideration for mere suspicion,” meaning that legal verdicts cannot be based on a highly unlikely possibility of occurrence. [Qawaid Al Fiqhiyyah P25]
As for your query you do not need to repeat your salah.
«حاشية ابن عابدين = رد المحتار ط الحلبي» (1/ 350):
«مَشَى فِي حَمَّامٍ وَنَحْوِهِ لَا يَنْجُسُ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ غُسَالَةُ نَجِسٍ.
«حاشية ابن عابدين = رد المحتار ط الحلبي» (1/ 350):
«(قَوْلُهُ: مَشَى فِي حَمَّامٍ وَنَحْوِهِ) أَيْ: كَمَا لَوْ مَشَى عَلَى أَلْوَاحٍ مُشْرَعَةٍ بَعْدَ مَشْيِ مَنْ بِرِجْلِهِ قَذَرٌ لَا يُحْكَمُ بِنَجَاسَةِ رِجْلِهِ مَا لَمْ يُعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ وَضَعَ رِجْلَهُ عَلَى مَوْضِعِهِ لِلضَّرُورَةِ فَتْحٌ. وَفِيهِ عَنْ التَّنْجِيسِ: مَشَى فِي طِينٍ أَوْ أَصَابَهُ وَلَمْ يَغْسِلْهُ وَصَلَّى تَجْزِيهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ أَثَرُ النَّجَاسَةِ؛ لِأَنَّهُ الْمَانِعُ إلَّا أَنْ يَحْتَاطَ، وَأَمَّا فِي الْحُكْمِ فَلَا يَجِبُ»
Only Allah (عز و جل) knows best.
Written by Maulana Sheik Abdel Ahad Imrit
Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham
