It is not obligatory to do wudoo’ after drinking camel’s milk
Question I have read question 7103, where it says that eating camel meat is one of the things that invalidate wudoo’. Is it obligatory to do wudoo’ after drinking camel’s milk too?. Praise be to Allah. Most of the scholars are of the view that it is not obligatory to do wudoo’ after drinking camel’s…
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Praise be to Allah.
Most of the
scholars are of the view that it is not obligatory to do wudoo’ after
drinking camel’s milk. This is the well-known view of Imam Ahmad (may Allaah
have mercy on him). This is indicated by a number of things:
1 – The basic
principle is that things do not break wudoo, and there is no saheeh evidence
to suggest that wudoo’ is invalidated by drinking camel’s milk.
The Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told some people who came
to Madeenah and got sick to drink camel’s urine and milk. Narrated by
al-Bukhaari (233) and Muslim (1671). If drinking their milk invalidated
wudoo’, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would
have told them about that.
See
al-Mughni, 1/245; al-Insaaf, 2/58; al-Sharh al-Mumti’,
1/209
With regard to
the hadeeth narrated by Ahmad (18617) and Ibn Maajah (496) from Usayd ibn
Hudayr (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do not do wudoo
after (drinking) sheep’s milk but do wudoo’ after (drinking) camel’s milk,”
and the hadeeth narrated by Ibn Maajah (497) from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar (may
Allaah be pleased with him) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Do wudoo’ after (eating)
camel meat and so not do wudoo’ after eating mutton; do wudoo’ after
(drinking) camel’s milk but do not do wudoo after (drinking) sheep’s milk,”
both of these ahaadeeth are weak and cannot be quoted as evidence. They were
classed as da’eef by al-Albaani in Da’eef Ibn Maajah.
Even if this
hadeeth were saheeh, the command mentioned therein could be understood as
meaning that it is mustahabb to do wudoo’ after drinking camel’s milk, so as
to reconcile it with the hadeeth quoted above.
