Delaying the Prayer until after its time due to an illness

or cold weather ―Shaikh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah

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Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid 24 March 2020

If a person does not have water available or he may be harming himself by using it due to
an illness he is suffering from, or because it is cold, or due to other reasons―and he is in a
state of minor impurity (after passing wind or urinating etc) or he’s in a state of sexual
impurity (janābah), then he must instead perform tayammum with clean earth, and that
is the soil of the earth―he wipes his face and hands with it and then prays and he does not
delay the Prayer till after its time―this is an affair agreed upon by the scholars.
(See Majmoo’ Al-Fatāwa of Shaikhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, 3/429)

When water is not available, then a dry purification (tayammum) is performed, which
proves the obligation of purification before Prayer. It is reported that “The Prophet
(‫ )ﷺ‬struck the soil of the earth with the palms of his hands, then blew off the
dust, and wiped his face and rubbed his hands.” (Al-Bukhāri, 343) The earth and
its soil are physical and spiritual purifiers.

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