The Desirability of Making Wudoo for Each Prayer

Al-Haafiz says in ‘al Fath’ (1/172) in the question

‘Making wudoo without having broken it’:

Anas (radhiAllaahu ‘anhu) says:

The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) used to make wudoo for every prayer.

I said: What had you (the Sahaabah) used to do?

He said: One wudoo was sufficient for us till such time as we broke it.

This hadeeth is an evidence that what is meant generally is the obligatory Prayer.

Al-Tahaawee says:

It may be that that was obligatory upon him (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) particularly – then was abrogated on the Day of Fath by the hadeeth of Buraidah – meaning that which Muslim reports – that he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prayed all the Prayers on the Day of Fath with one wudoo and that ‘Umar (radhiAllaahu ‘anhu) asked him about that so he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said I did it deliberately. Or it may be that he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) used to do it out of desirability only, then feared that it might be thought to be obligatory and so left it to show the permissibility of that.

We say: The result is that making wudoo for every Prayer is mustahabb and praying all of the Prayers with one wudoo is permissible – and Allaah Knows best.