Chapter on Tayammum

It is the substitute for purification with water.

When the time for an obligatory prayer arrives, or a supererogatory prayer becomes permissible, and water is unavailable, or its price is excessively high, or at a price1 he cannot afford; or if he fears that using it—or even searching for it—will harm his own body2, a companion, someone whose inviolability he must safeguard, or his property through thirst, illness, destruction, or the like, then tayammum (dry ablution) is legislated.

If a person finds only enough water to cover part of the required purification, he uses that water and then performs tayammum for the remainder. One who is wounded performs tayammum over the wound and washes the rest.

He must look for water in his luggage, in the area nearby, and by asking those who might direct him. If he forgets that he is able to obtain it and performs tayammum, he must repeat the prayer.

If, by his tayammum, he intends to lift minor states of impurity or to remove a physical impurity on his body whose removal would harm him, or the absence of