Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 4
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 4

Chapter on the Description of Ablution (Wudu)

مَا أَخْبَرَنِي بِهِ الشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَأَبِي دَاوُدَ جَمِيعًا عَنْ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِذَا تَوَضَّأْتَ بَعْضَ وُضُوئِكَ فَعَرَضَتْ لَكَ حَاجَةٌ حَتَّى يَبِسَ وُضُوؤُكَ فَأَعِدْ وُضُوءَكَ، فَإِنَّ الْوُضُوءَ لَا يُبَعَّضُ.
The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, informed me from Abu al-Qasim Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Yaʿqub, from several of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Abu Dawud together, from al-Husayn ibn Saʿid, from Fadalah ibn Ayyub, from al-Husayn ibn ʿUthman, from Samaah, from Abu Basir, from Abu Abdullah عليه السلام, who said: Imam عليه السلام said: "If you perform part of your Wuduʾ, and something interrupts you until your Wuduʾ dries, repeat your Wuduʾ, for Wuduʾ cannot be divided."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 102
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
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