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Question 781: Can one wipe the head in wudu from bottom to top?

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✅Answer: Please pay attention to the following narrations:

1 عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: لَا بَأْسَ بِمَسْحِ الْوُضُوءِ مُقْبِلًا وَ مُدْبِراً.

📚Al-Tahdhib, Vol. 1, p. 58

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Wiping in wudu, forward and backward, has no problem!

2 عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: لَا بَأْسَ بِمَسْحِ الْقَدَمَيْنِ مُقْبِلًا وَ مُدْبِراً.

📚Al-Tahdhib, Vol. 1, p. 83

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Wiping the two feet, forward and backward, has no problem!

3 عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي مَنْ رَأَى أَبَا الْحَسَنِ بِمِنًى- يَمْسَحُ ظَهْرَ قَدَمَيْهِ مِنْ أَعْلَى الْقَدَمِ إِلَى الْكَعْبِ وَ مِنَ الْكَعْبِ إِلَى أَعْلَى الْقَدَمِ وَ يَقُولُ الْأَمْرُ فِي مَسْحِ الرِّجْلَيْنِ مُوَسَّعٌ مَنْ شَاءَ مَسَحَ مُقْبِلًا وَ مَنْ شَاءَ مَسَحَ مُدْبِراً فَإِنَّهُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ الْمُوَسَّعِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ.

📚Al-Kafi, Vol. 3, p. 31

Yunus said: The person who saw Abu al-Hasan (peace be upon him) in Mina told me that he wiped his foot from the tip of the foot to the ankle and from the ankle to the tip of the foot and said: The matter of wiping the two feet has been made wide, whoever wants to, wipes forward, and whoever wants to, wipes backward!

✅It is clear from the above narrations that wiping in wudu, which includes wiping the head and wiping the two feet, has a wide scope, whether it is done from top to bottom or from bottom to top, and although hadith 2 and 3 are specific to wiping the two feet, hadith 1 includes all of the wiping in wudu.

Furthermore, these narrations have no conflict with other narrations.

اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَی مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

وَ عَجِّلْ لِوَلِیِّکَ الْفَرَجَ وَ الْعَافِیَةَ وَ النَّصْرَ

Wiping forward or backward

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