Doubts About Impurity And Its Transfer To Other Items And Other Places
Jazak Allah I have a question I have read a hadith that when you wake up wash your hands thrice before ablution .so is it must that whenever you wake up from sleep you have to wash your hands means our hands are impure when we don’t wash it and touches things ? Also should we wash impurity from both sides of clothes or from only that area which has direct impurity on it like if impurity on trouser then only wash the inner side of trouser which touches the body or also from outer side ?
1 ). Complete Hadith is as follows: Abu Huraira (rta) reported from Prophet Muhammad (sws): “ When anyone amongst you wakes up from sleep, he must not put his hand in the utensil till he has washed it three times, for he does not know where his hand was during the night “. Imam Muslim writes : This hadith has been transmitted through other chains of transmitters on the authority of Abu Huraira in which it is reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) made a mention of washing the hand, and did not instruct to wash it three times . ( Sources : https://sunnah.com/muslim:278a AND https://sunnah.com/muslim:278e ) AND It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “ When any one of you wakes from sleep, let him not dip his hand in (the water he uses for) his Wudu until he has washed it three times, for none of you knows where his hand spent the night .” ( Source : https://sunnah.com/nasai:1 ) It was a precautionary measure recommended by the Prophet (sws) because wudhu at that time was not done directly from tap water but rather from a utensil keeping that water. Just so that water does not get impure because of impure hands ( if any ), this measure was recommended to protect the purity of wudhu water. And Imam Muslim has made it clear that in other variants there is no mention of three times, which means it is not an obligation but a recommendation. This does not mean that hands are always dirty or impure when one wakes up. 2 ). Washing the affected side will achieve the basic purity and is enough but one may choose to wash the other side as well.
In cases where one is certain about the splashes but not about their placement, then one can either wash the suspected area of trouser which would be bigger area or they can choose to change the trouser.