Running Water Through Beard

Running Water Through the Beard with the Fingers

Uthmaan (radhiAllaahu’anhu) narrates that :

Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) Used to run his (wet fingers) through his beard.

[At-Tirmidhee (no.31), Ibn Maajah (no.430), Ibn Jaarood (p.43) and al-Haakim (1/14~)

Anas (radhiAllaahu’anhu) narrates that the Prophet (sallallaahu’alaihi wa sallam),

When he made wudoo , used to take a handful of water and enter it below his chin and rub it through his beard and said This is what my Lord – the Great and Exalted – has ordered me to do.

[Abo Dawood (no.145), al-Baihaqee (1/54), al-Haakim (1/149). 
Ash-Shaikh al-Albaani declares it to be saheeh (Saheeh ul-Jaami’, no.4572)].

Some of the scholars have declared that entering water through the beard is obligatory and say:

If he deliberately leaves it – then he must repeat the ( wudoo and) prayer. And this is the saying of Imam Ishaaq and Abu Thaur.

Most of the scholars however are of the opinion that the order is an order of desirability (istihbaab) and it is not obligatory – and that it is clearer that that which is obligatory is moving water through that part of the beard..so that it reaches the skin underneath.

[Al-Khattaabee, 1/56].

Imam Ahmad and Laith and most of the scholars hold that moving water through the beard is obligatory when taking ghusl from Janaabah – and not obligatory in wudoo .

[‘Aun al Ma’bood, 1/247].