Washing a child’s diapers does not invalidate wudoo’

Question

Praise be to Allah.

Wudoo’ is not invalidated
by cleaning a child’s urine or washing his diaper, because touching najaasah
does not invalidate wudoo’, but it is essential to wash off the najaasah if
one wants to pray.

It says in Fataawa
al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah:

Wudoo’ is not invalidated
by washing najaasah from the body of the person who has wudoo’ or elsewhere.
End quote.

Majallat al-Buhooth
al-Islamiyyah (22/62).

In Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn
Baaz it says (10/139):

Touching medical equipment
or the floor of the washroom barefoot does not invalidate wudoo’, but if
there is any najaasah on the floor and a woman or man steps in it, this does
not invalidate wudoo’, but they must wash their feet if they stepped in it
when it was wet, or if there is any wetness on the foot.

Touching a child’s clothes
that are wet with urine does not invalidate wudoo’, but the one who touched
it when it was wet has to wash his hand. The same applies if it was dry but
his hand was wet – he has to wash his hand. End quote.

Shaykh Ibn Baaz also said:
(10/141):

As for touching blood,
urine and other impure substances, that does not invalidate wudoo’, but he
must wash off whatever gets onto him. End quote.

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may
Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about a woman who washed her child when
she is in a state of purity. Does she have to do wudoo’?

He replied:

If a woman washes her
child, boy or girl, and touches the child’s private part, she does not have
to do wudoo’, rather she only has to wash her hand, because touching the
private part without desire does not necessitate wudoo’. It is known that
when a woman washes her children, desire does not even enter her mind, so if
she washes her child she only needs to wash her hands to get rid of any
najaasah that has got onto them, and she does not have to do wudoo’. End
quote.

Majmoo’Fataawa Ibn
‘Uthaymeen (11/203).

And Allaah knows best.