What Breaks Your Wudu, Sleeping or Lying Down? | Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan

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Join AMAR Academy Today: https://www.rahmaniyyah.com In this episode of al-Muwatta, Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan covers two major discussions from Kitab al-Taharah: does sleep break wudu, and what are the purity rulings around seawater and animals? The sleep discussion walks through the hadith of Safwan ibn 'Assal, the athar of Umar, Dalalat al-Iqtiran as a usuli principle and why it's weak landing on the position that it's not the sleep itself but the posture that determines the ruling. The second half unpacks the hadith "the sea is pure and its dead are permissible" and the hadith of Abu Qatada on cats drinking from wudu water. Several Usul al-Fiqh tools are broken open along the way a session that covers far more ground than the chapter title suggests. Timestamps: 0:00 - Does sleeping break wudu? 2:03 -View that sleep nullifies wudu 4:26 - ‘Association’ as evidence in usul al-fiqh 7:11 - Analogy between sleep and loss of consciousness 8:04 -Sleeping sitting vs lying down 11:04 - Strongest view 12:36 - Tafsir of wudu verse in Surah Al-Ma’idah 14:09 - Commands in the Quran imply obligation 17:01 - Washing arms up to the elbows in wudu 18:50 - Wiping the head, Shafi’i position 21:13 - What breaks wudu, Imam Malik 23:01 - Nosebleeds, blood, and pus 24:06 - Hanbali and Hanafi opinions on bleeding breaking wudu 26:08 - Ibn Umar sleeping seated without renewing wudu 27:15 - Introduction to conditioning purity for wudu 27:47 - sea water hadith 29:22 - Acceptance of hadith by scholars as evidence 31:21 - Companion asking about using sea water for wudu 33:47 - “Its water is pure and its dead animals are lawful” 35:28 - Seafood rulings 36:55 - Hadith of the cat drinking from the water vessel 40:55 - Cat saliva and purity in Islam 42:39 - Reason cats are excused in purification rulings 44:22 - water touched by cats Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abdulrahmanhassanofficial25 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/AMARofficial Telegram: https://t.me/+c87I9vy6kqkxOWZk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rahmaniyyahofficial WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbBlpi2CHDyjG4ZI1I0g X (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/UstAbdulrahman #abdulrahmanhassan #AlMadrasatuArRahmaniyyah #AMAR