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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

I read in the archive that water getting into your ears does not break the fast. Yet in the Nur Ul Idaah on page 185, chapter/Baab Ma yufsido sawm o yujibo qada min ghayri kafara. number 18-19. Which states that dropping oil or water in the ear does break your fast. Can you please shed some light on this.

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Walaikum assalam,

There are two cases:

a) water going into the ears by itself;

b) dripping water into the ears.

There is agreement in the Hanafi school that water going into the ears does not break the fast.

As for dripping water into the ears, the majority position is that it does not break the fast. This was chosen by Marghinani in al-Hidaya, Walwaliji, Zayla`i, Shaykh Zada, Haskafi, and in al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya. Others, including Ibn al-Humam, Bazzazi, and Shurunbulali followed Qadi Khan’s position that it does break the fast.

Ibn Abidin mentions both without obviously choosing one. Caution is the latter; the former is the dispensation.

Wassalam,

Faraz Rabbani
faraz@sunnipath.com
hanafi@sunnipath.com

في الفتاوى الهنديّة: (1/204) ولو أقطر في أذنه الماء لا يفسد صومه كذا في الهداية . وهو الصحيح هكذا في محيط السرخسي .

في الدر المختار شرح تنوير الأبصار: ( أو دخل الماء في أذنه وإن كان بفعله ) على المختار

علق عليه ابن عابدين في رد المحتار: ( قوله : وإن كان بفعله ) اختاره في الهداية والتبيين وصححه في المحيط , وفي الولوالجية أنه المختار , وفصل في الخانية بأنه إن دخل لا يفسد وإن أدخله يفسد في الصحيح ; لأنه وصل إلى الجوف بفعله فلا يعتبر فيه صلاح البدن , ومثله في البزازية واستظهره في الفتح والبرهان شرنبلالية ملخصا . والحاصل الاتفاق على الفطر بصب الدهن وعلى عدمه بدخول الماء . واختلف التصحيح في إدخاله نوح

Imam Abu Hanifa (Allah have mercy on him) said, “Fiqh is to know one’s self: what is for it and against it.”

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