Prescription

Allaah does not accept Prayer without purification !

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Allaah ta’ala says:

O Ye who believe! When ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles

[soorat-ul-Maa’idah, 5:7]

1. Abu Hurairah (radhiAllaahu’anhu) said: Rasoolullah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said:

The Prayer of anyone of you breaching purification is not accepted unless he makes wudoo.

[Al-Bukhaaree, (Fath ul-Baaree, 1/206), Muslim (no.225) and others].

2. Ibn ‘Umar (radhiAllaahu ‘anhumaa) said: Indeed I heard Rasoolullah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) say:

Allaah does not accept Prayer without purification, nor Sadaqah from illegally attained wealth.

[Muslim (1/160) and others]

3. Ibn ‘Abbaas (radhiAllaahu ‘anhumaa) said: Rasolullah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said:

Verily I have been ordered to make wudoo when I stand for Prayer.

[Saheeh. Reported by Abu Dawood (no.3760); at-Tirmidhee (no.1848), 
and he declared it to be ‘hasan-saheeh’: an-Nasaa.ee (1/73). 

4. Abu Sa’eed (radhiAllaahu ‘anhu) said: Rasoolullah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said:

The key to Prayer is purification, its ‘tahreem’ is the takbeer and its ‘tahleel’ is the giving salaam.

[Reported by Abu Dawood (no.60); at-Tirmidhee (no.3); Ibn Maajah (no.275) and othe