فصل في الوضوء والغسل

The obligations of wuḍūʾ are four: First, washing the face—from the hairline to the bottom of the chin in length, and from earlobe to earlobe in width.

Washing the hair covering the cheeks and chin is obligatory; washing what is beneath them, beneath the moustache and eyebrow, and what hangs of the beard is not obligatory. As for the white [area] between the temple and the ear, washing it is obligatory.

Second: washing the two hands including the elbows.

Third: wiping a quarter of the head.

Fourth: washing the two feet including the ankles; medicine in their cracks is valid with wuḍūʾ.

Its sunnas are twenty: intention.

And the basmala.

Washing the hands to the wrists three times for one who rises from sleep.

Observing order [of limbs].

Continuity [between limbs without undue delay].

Using the tooth-stick (siwāk).

Rinsing the mouth.

Sniffing water [into the nose].

Doing them thoroughly for one breaking a fast.

Beginning with the right side.

Beginning in washing the hands … and the feet from the tips of the fingers.

Combing through the beard.

…and the fingers.

Moving a tight ring.

Wiping the entire head.

Beginning it from the front.

Wiping the two ears.

…and the neck.

Tripling each washing.

The obligations of ghusl are five: rinsing the mouth.

Sniffing water.

Washing the rest of the body.

Bringing water inside the navel.

And to the middle of the man’s hair even if braided … unlike a woman’s braids.

Its sunnas are six: that he begin by washing his hands.

…and his private part.

Removing impurity from his body.

Then he performs wuḍūʾ as for prayer except his feet if he is in the bathing enclosure.

Then he washes his head and the rest of his body three times.

Then he leaves the bathing enclosure and washes his feet.

Ghusl on Friday, the two Eids, Arafah, and at iḥrām is sunna; a condition of the sunna is that he pray Friday with it before he incurs ḥadath.

Ghusl for one who embraces Islam, regains consciousness, or reaches maturity by age is recommended; if maturity is by emission, it is obligatory.

Ghusl for janāba, menstruation, and postnatal bleeding is not lifted by Islam.

Nullifiers of wuḍūʾ: everything exiting the two passages.

Blood, pus, and matter flowing without squeezing to a place of purification in general.

Vomit of a mouthful.

Sleep while lying down, reclining, or leaning without firm support on the ground.

Loss of reason by fainting, insanity, or intoxication.

Loud laughter in every prayer that has bowing and prostration.

If blood exits his mouth: if saliva predominates over it in colour, it does not nullify; if blood predominates over saliva or they are equal, it nullifies.

Touching the penis does not nullify.

…nor touching a woman … except in gross direct contact.

Ghusl is obligatory for emission of semen with desire, whether asleep or awake.

And full concealment of the glans in one of the two passages of a human—[applies] in both [cases].

And menstruation and postnatal bleeding.

Semen exiting without desire does not oblige it.

If he had a wet dream but saw no wetness, no ghusl is on him; if he saw wetness of madhy or semen and does not remember a wet dream, ghusl is obligatory on him.