#643: Does the Wind that comes through the Woman`s Private Organ terminated the Wudhu?
QUESTION:
“As salam alaykum warahmatullah, abu how are the family doing and you, pls I want you to share more light on the question of passing wind tru vagina bcos what I know is the wind that come tru anus that nullify the ablution why the other is not. And Allah knows best”
ANSWER:
Wa Alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh
Alhamdulillāh!
Firstly, It should be known that the Ulamā differed on the wind that comes out from the Front of a Woman.
The position upheld by the Mālikiyyah and the Hanafiyyah is that it does not affect the Wudhū. This is mentioned by Ibn ‘Ābidīn Al-Hanafī in Raddu Al-Muhtār ‘Alā Ad-Durri Al-Mukhtār, and by Ad-Dardīr Al-Mālikī in Ash-Sharhu Al-Kabīr.
Their position is premised on the fact that this wind has not passed through the place of Najāsah and therefore has nothing to do with the Hadath for which Wudhū is to be made again.
The Shāfi’ī and Hanbalī positions on this matter is that it does terminate the Wudhū and the Wudhū must be done again. Imām Ash-Shāfi’ī mentioned this in Al-Umm, Al-Mardāwī mentioned it in Al-Insāf and Ibn Qudāmah Al-Maqdisī – rahimahullāh – in Al-Mughnī.
They referred to the generality of the implication of the Hadīth recorded by Imām At-Tirmidhī, and declared Sahih by the Ulamā: himself, Adh-Dhahabī and Al-Albānī, and by Imām Muslim in his Sahih from Abū Hurayrah, in which the Rasūl – salallāhu alayhi wasallam – said:
لَا وُضُوءَ إِلَّا مِنْ صَوْتٍ أَوْ رِيحٍ
“Wudhū shouldn’t be renewed (for the purpose of wind) except on account of a sound (that is heard) or a smell (that is perceived)”
In this Hadīth there is referrence to sound and smell and they were not specified to come from the posterior alone. Yet, there is no evidence that restricts and specifies this particular generic statement. Imām At-Tirmidhī in his Sunan quoted this to be the derivation made by Imām Ibn Al-Mubārak.
Apparently, the later position is stronger based on the Precepts of Usūl that the Generic ( ‘Ām ) remains generic until a Specifier ( Khās ) is found to dis-include it. And Allāh knows best
Secondly, in the Fatwah to which you refer, we never talked about the wind that comes from the Front. And our speech was about excessive flatulence generally, and Allāh knows best.
May Allāh Grant us Tawfīq and Istiqāmah, amīn.
Bārakallāhu Fīkum
Jazakumullāhu Khayran
21st Dhul Hijjah 1439A.H
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