- The one washing the deceased will generally touch the private parts, and touching the private parts is among the things that invalidate ablution.
The second view is that washing a deceased person does not invalidate ablution (1).
They cited the following evidence:
- For ablution to be invalidated, there must be a legal proof by which the ablution established through legal proof is lifted. Yet there is no evidence for this in the Book of Allah, the sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ, or scholarly consensus.
They answered what has been reported from these three Companions by saying that the instruction may have been by way of recommendation. To impose something upon Allah’s servants without evidence that gives the heart assurance is a serious matter, for declaring obligatory what is not obligatory is like declaring unlawful what is not unlawful.
Moreover, if we require him to perform ablution, then we have invalidated his prayer if he washes the deceased and prays without renewing his ablution. Invalidating a prayer is a serious matter that requires clear evidence …..
Eating specifically the meat of camel, ………
His statement, “and eating specifically the meat of camel,” means that eating specifically the meat of camel invalidates ablution. This is the seventh of the things that invalidate ablution, and it is one of the rulings unique to the school of Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) (2).