Performing salaah with wudhu not knowing ghusal is also a requirement
Q: For the last seven years, from the time I became baaligh, I performed salaah with wudhu but without ghusal because I was not aware of the masalah of ghusl. Should I repeat those salaahs?
A: During the seven years, the times when you had made ghusal and you washed your entire body (including rinsing your nose and gargling your mouth), though you did not have knowledge of the ghusal being a precondition for purity, the ghusal made in that state was valid and the salaah performed thereafter were also valid.
If you did not rinse your nose and gargle your mouth during the ghusal, but later on when you performed wudhu you carried out these two actions, then this will suffice for your ghusal being complete. Hence, the salaah performed thereafter were valid.
However, if you required a fardh ghusal and you did not make ghusal and only sufficed on wudhu due to not knowing the masalah of ghusal, then those salaah performed in such a state were not valid and will have to be repeated. You should apply your mind and try to work out how many salaah were performed in such a state.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
عن علي رضي الله عنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال من ترك موضع شعرة من جنابة لم يغسلها فعل بها كذا وكذا من النار قال علي فمن ثم عاديت رأسي ثلاثا وكان يجز شعره (سنن أبي داود، الرقم: 249)
(الفصل الأول في فرائضه) وهي ثلاثة المضمضة والاستنشاق وغسل جميع البدن على ما في المتون (الفتاوى الهندية 1/13)
(وأما) ركنه فهو إسالة الماء على جميع ما يمكن إسالته عليه من البدن من غير حرج مرة واحدة حتى لو بقيت لمعة لم يصبها الماء لم يجز الغسل وإن كانت يسيرة (بدائع الصنائع 1/267)
ويجب إيصال الماء إلى داخل السرة وينبغي أن يدخل أصبعه فيها للمبالغة كذا في محيط السرخسي (الفتاوى الهندية 1/14)
تطهير النجاسة من بدن المصلي وثوبه والمكان الذي يصلي عليه واجب (الفتاوى الهندية 1/58 ، حاشية الطحطاوي على مراقي الفلاح صـ 207)
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