291. Wudhu In The Case Of Wound

By Asma Bint Shameem

If there’s bandage or splint etc on a limb, the correct way to make wudhu  is to wash the REST of the parts like you would do for wudhu, and WIPE over the part that’s in a cast/splint’ or covered with a bandage. 

Al-Bayhaqi said: 

“Ibn ‘Umar radhi Allaahu anhu did wudhu when his hand was bandaged, and he wiped over it and over the dressing, and he washed everything else.”

(Al-Majmoo’, 2/368)

Someone asked Shaikh Ibn Uthaymeen about how to do wudhu with a bandage (plaster/cast) on his hand. 

He said:

“when you do wudhu, wash the part of the hand where there is no bandage, and for the part where the bandage is, it will be sufficient for you to wipe over the outside of it by wetting your hand with water and moving it over the outside of the bandage. 

This will suffice for you instead of washing what is beneath it for as long as it needs to stay, even if that is for many prayer times or for several days.”

And if the plaster or bandage is over the arm or leg but the fingers or toes are uncovered, then you must WASH the fingers/toes. 

Shaikh Ibn Uthaymeen said:

“Sometimes the cast covers the palm and the fingers are not covered. 

In that case, it is obligatory to wash the fingers and the cast may be wiped over. Similarly, in the case of [a cast on] the leg, the toes may be not covered, so they must be washed and the cast must be wiped over.” 

[al-Liqaa’ ash-Shahri (61/27)]

And Allaah knows best