Answered by SunniPath Answer Service Team
When a person has been to the toilet and then needs to do istinja for urinating (so he doesn’t excrete faeces but *only* urinates) when he does istinja does he have to wash all of his private parts (all of the penis and surrounding areas) including the anus and in between the buttocks (which should still be clean if he is only urinating), or does he only need to wash the tip of the penis, or only the penis where a bit of the urine may still be?
Waalaykum Assalam wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu,
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful & Compassionate
One cleans the area that is filthy.
From the past post by Sidi Sohail Hanif (see full link below):
1. Using water is obligatory in istinja (removing filth from one’s private parts after using the toilet) if the filth has spread out from its point of exit by more than the size of a dirham (approximately a circle of 6cm radius as mentioned by some contemporary scholars).
This is so as to wash away the extra unexcused amount of filth.
2. If the filth is less than 6 cm in diameter beyond the point of exiting then istinja itself remains a confirmed sunna (sunna mu’akkada), and not obligatory.
This sunna can be fulfilled either by washing with water, which is superior, or wiping with a dry, value-less substance such as toilet paper in our times.
Wassalam,
The Sunni Path Fiqh Team
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