Chapter on the Description of Ablution and Its Obligations
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 16
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اَلرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ اَلْحَجَّاجِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا اَلْحَسَنِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلْكَسِيرِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ اَلْجَبَائِرُ أَوْ تَكُونُ بِهِ اَلْجِرَاحَةُ كَيْفَ يَصْنَعُ بِالْوُضُوءِ وَ عِنْدَ غُسْلِ اَلْجَنَابَةِ وَ عِنْدَ غُسْلِ اَلْجُمُعَةِ قَالَ« يَغْسِلُ مَا وَصَلَ إِلَيْهِ اَلْغُسْلُ مِمَّا ظَهَرَ مِمَّا لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ اَلْجَبَائِرُ وَ يَدَعُ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ مِمَّا لاَ يَسْتَطِيعُ غَسْلَهُ وَ لاَ يَنْزِعُ اَلْجَبَائِرَ وَ لاَ يَعْبَثُ بِجِرَاحَتِهِ».
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, from Safwan ibn Yahya, from Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hajjaj, who said:
I asked Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام about a person with a fracture who has splints on it or someone with wounds - how should he perform wudu (ablution), ghusl janabah (ritual purification after major impurity), and ghusl jumu'ah (Friday bath)? Imam عليه السلام said: "He washes what he can reach with water from the areas that are exposed and not covered by splints. He leaves the parts that he cannot wash and does not remove the splints or tamper with the wounds."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 385
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