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Is it permissible to pray with tayammum if there isn’t enough time to perform ghusl?

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Answered by Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher

If one has insufficinet time to make ghusl, does one just make tayyamum and pray? [ie: if it seems one’s menses has ended with only five/ ten minutes left of the prayer time]

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

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate

assalamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh

Thank you for asking this important question.

Not having enough time to purify oneself is not a reason that permits one to perform dry ablution (tayammum) instead of ablution (wudu) or the purificatory bath (ghusl). [1] If a woman finds that her menses end shortly before the end of the prayer time, such that peforming a complete purificatory bath will cause her to miss the prayer, she should still perform the bath and then make up the prayer that she missed after the prayer time exits. If she bathes as quickly as possible, and if she does not do anything else to unnecessarily delay the performance of the prayer, she will not be sinful for praying the prayer outside of its time.

And Allah Most High knows best.

Hamza.

[1] The great scholar Ibn Qasim al-`Abbadi said, “If one has access to [extremely] cold water and is able to heat itIs it permissible to pray with tayammum if there isn’t enough time to perform ghusl?, but only a little bit of the prayer time remains such that heating the water will cause the prayer time to elapse, then it is [still] obligatory to heat the water, even if the prayer time elapses. It is not permissible for one, in this case, to pray by performing tayammum. Our teacher Shihab al-Ramli answered this issue in this manner. The answer is obviously correct because one has access to water and is able to purify oneself with it.” (al-Hawashi al-Madaniyya, 1.185)

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