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What Ghusl Makes Permissible
While in janabah, you may not pray, circle the Ka'bah in tawaf, touch the mushaf or recite the Qur'an. Once you have bathed, all of these become permitted again. Menstruation and postnatal bleeding carry similar restrictions, with details of their own.
A ghusl that included wudu, as in the sunnah method, is enough for the prayer. 'A'ishah said that the Prophet ﷺ did not make wudu again after his ghusl, a hadith graded sahih by al-Albani. If you break your wudu after finishing, though, make wudu again before you pray.
Janabah does not have to be lifted at once. The Prophet ﷺ sometimes woke in janabah, then bathed and fasted that day; and he allowed 'Umar to sleep in janabah after washing his private parts and making wudu. Just do not let it make you miss a prayer.
All four schools agree on this step.
- Qur'an 4:43
- Qur'an 56:79
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 107Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Sahih · Al-Albani: Sahih · Bashar Awad Maarouf: Hasan Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: DaifSahih
- Sunan Abi Dawud 250Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: DaifSahih
- Sahih al-Bukhari 1926 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih al-Bukhari 287 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih al-Bukhari 290 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
The positions of the four schools are summarised from their standard references and are pending review by a qualified scholar. Follow the school you were taught, and for your own situation, ask a scholar.
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