He wiped over his khufoof then remembered that the time for wiping had ended. Should he wash his feet or repeat wudoo’?
Question 1. Should one have the intention of wiping over the khufoof before starting to do wudoo’, or when he reaches the washing of the feet should he just wipe or wash them? 2. There is a person who did wudoo’ and wiped over his khufoof, then straight after he had wiped over his khufoof…
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2. There is a person who did wudoo’ and wiped over his khufoof, then straight after he had wiped over his khufoof he remembered that the period for wiping over the khufoof had ended. Should he take off the khufoof and wash his feet, or should he take off his khufoof and repeat wudoo’ from the beginning?.
Praise be to Allah.
The intention is not essential for it to be permissible to
wipe over the khufoof. So long as the individual put on the khufoof when he
was in a state of purity, he may wipe over them. It is not essential for him
to form the intention to wipe over them before doing wudoo’; rather when he
reaches that point in his wudoo’, he may wipe over them and that is
sufficient.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen was asked: is it essential in order for
it to be permissible to wipe over the khufoof that one should form the
intention to wipe over them?
He replied: Forming the intention in this case is not
obligatory, because this is a matter the ruling on which is connected to
whether it is present or not, so there is no need for the intention. That is
similar to the case when one wears a thobe: it is not necessary to form the
intention to cover one’s ‘awrah with it when praying, for example. So in the
case of wearing khufoof, it is not essential to form the intention to wipe
over them. The same applies to the intention with regard to the length of
time. If a person is travelling he may wipe over them for three days,
whether he intends that or not; and if he is not travelling he may wipe over
them for one day and one night, whether he intends that or not.
End quote from Majmoo‘ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 11/117
With regard to the one who wipes over his khufoof then
remembers that the period for wiping over them has ended, if that is
immediately after wiping over them, as the questioner mentioned, then the
way to proceed is to take off the khufoof and wash the feet only, because in
that case there will still be continuity in washing the parts of the body to
be washed in wudoo’, and there will be no lengthy interruption between
wiping the head and washing the feet.
But if he remembers that a long time after finishing wudoo’,
then he has to repeat wudoo’ and wash his feet, because with this lengthy
interruption it cannot be regarded as a continuation of wudoo’.
See: ash-Sharh al-Mumti‘, 1/355
And Allah knows best.
