#129: Ruling on Wet Dreams

Thu 1 Dhul Hijjah 1443AH

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Assalamu alaykum. My question goes like this, someone wake up in the morning only to find out that he had a wet dream, and he was afraid to bath cold water because it’s fajr time and it will affect him, then he went to the toilet wash his private part and brush, then he performed tayyamum and go to mosque to pray subhi pray. Now what is the implication of that pray? Is the prayer accepted or not”.

ANSWER

Wa alaykum salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh
It is important to note that what is obligatory on a Muslim to do is to take Ghusl from ejaculation of Manī whenever it gushes out.Allāh – ta’ālā – said:( وَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ جُنُبًا فَاطَّهَّرُوا ).
_”And if you are in a state of Junub, then make the Purification.”_
The Verse proved to us the kind of Tahārah (Purification) that is meant here The only exemptions to the Ghusl are the absence of water for it, inability to reach it, fear of harm or illness.Imām Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalānī – rahimahullāh – said While commenting on the Hadīth recorded by Imām Abū Dāwud from the Companion ‘Amr Ibn Al-Ās – radiyallāhu ‘anhu – where he reported himself to the Rasūl – salallāhu alayhi wasallam – that he performed Tayammum from Janābah while on a joirney because he feared the severity of cold, using as evidence the verse wherein Allāh – ta’ālā – said:: وَلا تَقْتُلُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيماً
_”And do not kill yourselves, indeed Allāh is merciful unto you.”_
He (Imām Ibn Hajar) saiيوفي هذا الحديث جواز التيمم لمن يتوقع من استعمال الماء الهلاك سواء كان لأجل برد أو غيره ، وجواز صلاة المتيمم بالمتوضئين
_”In this Hadīth is evidence for the permissibility of making Tayammum for the one that expects destruction by the use of water. The ruling applies whether it is by severity of cold or otherwise. It also shows the permissibility of the one who observed Tayammum to observe the Salāt with those who made Wudhū.”_
Reference is Fat’hu Al-Bārī The question that rears its head is what constitutes severity of cold that warrants this Dispensation ( _Rukhsah_)?
About this, the Ulamā differed.
But what they agree on is that there should be a legitimate fear that something would befall you.
Whether death, severity of an already present illness, or illness in itself.
And it must not be a flimsy feeling of coldness.
And in our case, or your case, what was right was for you to boil or warm your water with whatever you could use
Of stove, electric or gas boilers, etc…
*even if that will mean losing out on the Congregational Salāt, as long as the time of Subh will not miss you*
That is because the necessity that warrants tayammum is suspended till the fear of passage of the period of Salāt *if the means to raise that necessity exists with certainty before the period of the said Salāt expires*
This is the concensus of the Ulamā.
In fact, the majority of the Madhāhib – exempting the Mālikī position hold that he must still delay the Salāt even if it will mean the passage of its time in this case. But the position of Mālik is stronger-
That he should only refrain from the tayammum if it wouldn’t mean the passage of its time, which is the rising of the sun.
Allahu A’alam.
As for the Salāt which you observed, we ask Allāh to accept it from you, but you should take heed to the correction in the answer that we have provided.