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THE PROPHET’S WUDOO’ (ABLUTION)
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Washing The Nose And Expelling The Water
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Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) narrates that the Prophet (ﷺ) said
“When one of you makes Wudoo’ then let him enter water into his nose, then expel it.”
[Al-Bukhaaree (al-Fath, 1/229), Muslim (no.237), Abu Dawood (no. 140)]
Exerting in sniffing in the water as long as you are not fasting is reported in the hadeeth of Laqeet (رضي الله عنه) who said:
“O Rasoolullah (ﷺ), inform me of the Wudoo’ . He ﷺ said Complete the Wudoo’ and rub between the fingers and exert in breathing in the water into the nose unless you are fasting.”
[Abu Dawood, no.l42; At-Tirmidhee, no.38; An-nasaa’ee, no.ll4; IbMaajah, no.407; and others]. (Declared as saheeh by Ibn Hibbaan and al-Haalcim, and adh-Dhahabee agreed to that. Also declared as saheeh by Ibn al Qaataan, AnNawawi and Ibn Hajr. Refer to the footnote in al-Baghawi’s Sharh us-Sunnah: 1/417]
It is clear from these two ahaadith that washing the mouth and nose are both obligatory (waajib). Ibn Qudaamah says in ‘al-Mughnee’:
Washing the nose and washing the mouth are both obligatory in both forms of purification – Ghusl and Wudoo’ – as washing the face is obligatory in both of them in the established view of the madhhab; and it is the saying of Ibn al-Mubaarak, Ibn Abi Lailaa and Ishaaq, and it is reported from ‘Ataa.
