AsSalamOAlaikum WaRehmatuAllah WaBarkatuhu

Generally i am aware that a person loses their wudu (un/intentionally) touching the opposite gender.

I wanted to know if i lose wudu if i touch the wife i.e hold hand or something. Cause the thing is i always keep my wudu 24/7, and i dont want to keep losing my wudu

FiAmaaniAllah

I didn't know this actually, when text books state what breaks wudhu, they never mention this. I would imagine touching your husband/wife would not apply though as you are married and it is halaal, you would be doing wudhu all the time or avoiding your spouse otherwise, but that is just me assuming.

The only things that will nullify your wudhu are what has already been mentioned bro. Sorry, I can't be more explicit than that.

So touching the opposite gender doesn't break the wudhu?

^Not your spouse, as long as it doesnt intentionally/unintentionally lead to what requires ablution/ghusl.

(It has been narrated) upon the authority of Aaisha - may Allah be pleased with her - that "The Messenger kissed one of his wives then he went out to prayer and didnt make wudhu" (Abu Daawood, An-Nasaa'ee and others).

wear gloves.........im just playing man inshallah all our duas will be answered

i think it depends on which madhab you're using...

If madhab imam shafie... you'll lose your wudu'. But i guess it depends where are you going and why you keep holding your wife's hand...

Probably you're doing umrah right now

Since there is strong daleel and proof from hadith and quran, math-hab opinions are not to be taken. That is actually what all scholars of Sunnah today are trying to get muslims off, which is taqleed (mimicing). Please remember that many opinions in math-habs were made based on hadiths that were later overturned as weak or placed, or made because there was no hadith that were later found to be authenticated.

Anyway, as for this matter, touching a person from the opposite sex that is not halal for you ruins your ablution and you have to repeat ablution for the prayer. Touching your spouse or children or other people who are mahram or halal to you, does not ruin ablution.

Other matters that ruin the ablution: Sleeping (even for 5 minutes), losing consciousness, bleeding from the skin (not the gums), any of the excrements or breaking wind, touching things with najasa on it, etc.

And God knows Best

Originally Posted by Najm

AsSalamOAlaikum WaRehmatuAllah WaBarkatuhu

Generally i am aware that a person loses their wudu (un/intentionally) touching the opposite gender.

I wanted to know if i lose wudu if i touch the wife i.e hold hand or something. Cause the thing is i always keep my wudu 24/7, and i dont want to keep losing my wudu

FiAmaaniAllah

There is a difference of opinion on this issue but the correct one is that it does not break wudu regardless of whether she is touched with desire or not.

^^^lol did you both (akhee sampharo and abd latiff) realised that you both said both are the correct opinion...which is the oposite ones....huhuhu.

better post another before one will get confused...

AsSalamOAlaikum WaRehmatuAllah WaBarkatuhu

Originally Posted by Scents of Jannah

(It has been narrated) upon the authority of Aaisha - may Allah be pleased with her - that "The Messenger kissed one of his wives then he went out to prayer and didnt make wudhu" (Abu Daawood, An-Nasaa'ee and others).

I can do that? :O

Originally Posted by Abdullahii

wear gloves.........im just playing man inshallah all our duas will be answered

Would gloves really do the trick ?

Originally Posted by syilla

i think it depends on which madhab you're using...

If madhab imam shafie... you'll lose your wudu'. But i guess it depends where are you going and why you keep holding your wife's hand...

Probably you're doing umrah right now

But what does imam hanafi say? I dont know why i would hold her hand, i guess she would hold mine So i would lose my wudu i guess, its going to be hard to keep my wudu all the time

Originally Posted by 'Abd-al Latif

There is a difference of opinion on this issue but the correct one is that it does not break wudu regardless of whether she is touched with desire or not.

Now im confused, do i have it or not? And when will i require to do ghusul instead?

And also akhi Sampharo, what is najasa??

I keep my wudu all the time, and when i know i broke it, i go and do it again, this will be hard

FiAmaaniAllah

Originally Posted by syilla

^^^lol did you both (akhee sampharo and abd latiff) realised that you both said both are the correct opinion...which is the oposite ones....huhuhu.

better post another before one will get confused...

Actually no, we both said the same thing. That touching your spouse does not ruin the wudu and it is ok. What I said at first is that touching a foreign woman (non-wife nor mahram) ruins the wudu, which is agreed upon by all scholars.

Brother Najm, based on the authenticated hadith of Aisha there has become overwhelming consensus that you can touch your wife freely without losing your ablution.

When i was in Hajj there would be men bumping into me, brushing past me all the time while doing tawaf, it was completely packed out, and basically every other woman and man must have experienced the same. It would be impossible to get through a tawaf in Hajj time without that happening?

^ About half the scholars actually say that Tawaf does not require wudu to start with, including Abu Haneefa and Ibn Taymeyya and most scholars of Hanbali school. Malik and Shafei and some other Hanbali scholars say it is a condition.

For touching it needs to be skin on skin. So if you are in tawaf all dressed and only your hands and face are showing, and your hands can be beneath your veil. So you have to literally headbutt a man in his naked back or something to actually make that happen. proximity from behind cloth does not ruin the ablution and is not touching.

However if for some other reason you do lose your ablution, Maliki and Shafei say you need to stop, go to make wudu again, and come back to the same spot and continue. Some Maliki scholars say you have to repeat from the beginning but they brought no daleel for that so it's a weakened opinion.