Tahaarat

Q: According to the Hanafi Math-hab I'd like to know the correct way of washing the hands upto the wrists. I teach in a maktab madrassah and we used to teach them to first wash the right hand including the wrist three times and then to wash the left hand including the wrist three times but we were told that that is incorrect and it has to be as follows:

To wash both hands including the wrists three times and the action has to be done in such a way that you would alternate e.g you would first wash the right hand then the left hand and then the right hand, so the right hand would end up getting washed twice and the left once.

Can you please advise on how it should be taught to the kids.

Q: I have digestive problems, one of them problem is if I don't empty my stomach, I get a lot of wind coming out. Now this created difficulty because wind can break the wudu. I was told if it constantly happens, then your wudhu wouldn't break so it that true? My problem is sometimes I get a lot of wind coming out, sometime I don't. I have illness in my stomach so am I excused person when wind breaks out my wudu wouldn't break?

Q: I broke my ghusl yesterday and today before performing ghusl, I trimmed my pubic hair by applying shaving gel then fluid started coming out of my private part. I sat on the toilet seat for like 20 minutes squishing my private part to get all the fluid out, but it was continuously coming out. I got under the shower for 5 minutes and again went to the toilet seat to check if it was still coming out, there was a little of it but after squishing it twice, the fluid stopped coming out, I checked twice and there wasn't any fluid. I performed ghusl but I am not sure if that fluid came out during the performance of ghsul or not or afterwards. Do I need to perform ghusl again?

Note: I face a lot of waswasa during ghusl and it takes me about half and hour to perform ghusl! It's really hard for me so I just don't want to do it again!

Q: If a person is bed-ridden, how should those attending to him clean him after he relieves himself or at the time of ghusl? Is it permissible for them to look at or touch his private parts while cleaning him? Also explain the ruling with regard to a woman who is bed-ridden.

Q: What is the shar’ee ruling regarding an old person who is unable to make istinja properly due to old age?

Q: If oil is applied to the hair and a person does not use shampoo to remove the oil but only pours water over the head. Will the ghusl be valid?

Q: Everyday I keep doubting whether my wudu was done correctly or should I repeat my wudu. I suffer from ocd.

Q: If a person is unable to make fardh ghusal on account of extreme illness due to which one is unable to have a bath, what should be done and how should he perform his salaah?

Q: I wanted to ask that, I must have bled a little from my finger which I didn't know about. I saw it after I put clean clothes away and it seemed dry. I don't know if this blood touched my clothes that I was wearing or the clean clothes I put away or anything I my have touched and with most clothes being black it's hard to tell.

1. Please can you tell me if I need to wash the clothes again or would they be considered pure?

2. Is my namaz counted in the same clothes I was wearing? 

Q: I have problem due to acne on my face and on my back when I sit or if pressure is applied on it, it may burst and bleed, mostly blood comes out and there is no pus, but sometimes there is and both are unnoticeable mostly.

1. If this blood comes out, will my wudu be invalid? If yes, then what about prayers that I have offered in it without knowing about it bursting and about wudu?

2. What about the blood spots on my vest as there are a lot of it on it especially when 3 to 4 burst. Will my clothes be impure? Will Salah be valid?

3. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar Rahman ibn al-Mujabbar that he saw Salim ibn Abdullah with blood running from his nose so that his fingers were all coloured red. Then he rubbed it and prayed without doing wudu.

وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْمُجَبَّرِ، أَنَّهُ رَأَى سَالِمَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَنْفِهِ الدَّمُ حَتَّى تَخْتَضِبَ أَصَابِعُهُ ثُمَّ يَفْتِلُهُ ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي وَلاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ ‏.‏

USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 2, Hadith 52 Arabic reference : Book 2, Hadith 82

What about this hadith should I follow it then? Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that the ayat "You who believe! When you rise for prayer wash your faces, and your arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads and your feet up to the ankles," refers to rising from bed, meaning sleep. Yahya said that Malik said, "The situation with us is that one does not have to do wudu for a nose-bleed, or for blood, or for pus issuing from the body. One only has to do wudu for impurities which issue from the genitals or the anus, or for sleep."

وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، أَنَّ تَفْسِيرَ، هَذِهِ الآيَةِ ‏{‏يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ وَامْسَحُوا بِرُءُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ‏}‏ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ إِذَا قُمْتُمْ مِنَ الْمَضَاجِعِ ‏.‏ يَعْنِي النَّوْمَ ‏.‏ قَالَ يَحْيَى قَالَ مَالِكٌ الأَمْرُ عِنْدَنَا أَنَّهُ لاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ مِنْ رُعَافٍ وَلاَ مِنْ دَمٍ وَلاَ مِنْ قَيْحٍ يَسِيلُ مِنَ الْجَسَدِ وَلاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدَثٍ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ دُبُرٍ أَوْ نَوْمٍ ‏.‏

USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 2, Hadith 10 Arabic reference : Book 2, Hadith 40