Fatwa ID: 03147

Answered by:  Shaykh Umer Khan

Question:

Does lying down break Wudhu?

Answer:

In The Name Of Allah, The Most-Merciful, The Most Kind

Yes, one may lie down in the state of wuḍū' and this does not break their wuḍū' unless one falls asleep while lying down in a way that they cannot understand most of the speech around them (Marāqī al-Falāḥ, 39 and Jāmiʻ al-Tirmidhī, ḥadīth 77).

Only Allah knows best

Written by Shaykh Umer Khan

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

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