In the light of Hanafi & Shafi’i madhab. Will write step by step so we may understand better. I also request and hope from you guys to correct me in case if I’m anywhere wrong and if wrote something which is wrong.
Things which are necessary to constitute a valid ablution:
By Shafi’i: Beginning ablution by pronouncing the formula, “In the name of Allah.” If neglected at the beginning the omission may be rectified by pronouncing the formula in the middle.
By Hanafi: Beginning ablution by pronouncing the formula, “In the name of Allah.” If neglected at the beginning then the ablution is void and should repeated from beginning with formula.
By Hanafi & Shafi'i: **Washing the hands before commencing the ritual ablution. It is even considered blamable to dip the hands in a basin containing water for the ablution of several persons, without first washing them three times, unless on is sure they are quite clean.**
there are faraiz & sunnats for ablution..... as long as you are fulfilling the faraiz then its valid....... you don't have to start from the beginning no matter if you are saying " In the name of Allah" or not ... saying that is sunnat ....
Purpose of this thread (information) is to gain more knowledge (understand about Fard & Sunnah) and in case if we are somewhere neglecting something either intentionally or unintentionally, then we should correct ourselves.
See this hadith:
Book ‘Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)’ of Sunan Abu-Dawud, Hadith No. 0101.
**Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Messenger of Allah said: The prayer of a person who does not perform ablution is not valid, and the ablution of a person who does not mention the name of Allah (in the beginning) is not valid. **
In this hadith, the Prophet Muhammad clearly stated that ablution is Not Valid if name of Almighty Allah (in the beginning) is not mentioned. When ablution is not valid then the prayer is also not valid. “Faraiz or Sunnah ki to baat hi khatam hogai”.
After reading this hadith, how you’ll explain that your ablution is still valid without reading “name of Allah in the beginning”?
By Shafi'i: It is preferable to combine them taking water in the palm of the hand three times for the two together i.e., rinsing the mouth and cleansing the nostrils with water at once three times.
**By Hanafi: It is well to do these separately; first taking water three times in the hollow of the hand for rinsing, and then three times for the other purpose.
**Except in the case of persons fasting, these two practices are as a rule observed by every one.
==> **Both methods proven by hadiths Shahih Muslim 'The Book of Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah*)' and Sunan Abu Dawud 'Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)'.*
By Hanafi & Shafi'i: The washing of the face, i.e., the part of the head comprised from top to bottom between the place where the hair usually begins and the extremity of the lower jaw-bones, and from right to left between the ears. This includes also the part of the forehead upon which the hair falls down, and the part of the head where the hair has been cut; but does not include the temples, i.e., the two white spots to right and left of the forelocks. [A part of the head where the hairs has been cut is rightly considered by nearly all learned men as belonging to the top of the head and not to the face.]
It is necessary to wash eyelashes, eyebrows, whiskers, moustache and imperia], both the hair and the skin covered by it. Some jurists, however, contend that it is not obligatory to wash the skin covered by the imperial when the latter is thick; and all agree that the beard need be washed like the eylids, etc., only when it is thin, but, otherwise, merely on the surface. One learned author has even advanced the opinion that a special ablution of the beard, and in general of all the hair on the face, is not obligatory.
Slightly difference:
By Hanafi: **To was thee times, one may use very same water and no need to take new water each time**
By **Shafi'i: To wash three times, one may use every time new water i.e., if one wish to wash face three time than he may use new water three times.
said: The prayer of a person who does not perform ablution is not valid, and the ablution of a person who does not mention the name of Allah (in the beginning) is not valid. **