Q: There is a hadith that if one gets up from his sleep, he must not put his hands into a vessel before washing them because one doesn’t know where his hands were when he was sleeping. So do my hands become impure after I get up from my sleep?
A: The hand is not impure, but there is a possibility that the hand could have touched something that was filthy.
And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
Answered by:
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)