the other hand.” This, however, only discharges the obligation to wipe the palm itself. As for the inner surfaces of the fingers, according to his account, the obligation to wipe them is discharged when wiping the face.

In any event, dust reaches the inner surfaces of both hands when one strikes the ground with them and when one uses them to wipe the face and the backs of the hands. If one also wipes each hand with the other, this occurs three times. Were the prescribed order obligatory, one would have to wipe their inner surfaces after the face. This is not possible if one holds that a single strike suffices. Doing so would entail wiping them repeatedly. That requirement is therefore waived, for repetition is not prescribed in tayammum, unlike ablution. In ablution, even if one washes one’s hands at the outset and scoops up water with them for the face, one then washes them up to the elbows after washing the face, while also using them to scoop up water. Thus, they are washed repeatedly, because repetition is generally recommended in ablution, which is purification with water.

However, if one does not wash one’s hands after washing the face, the matter calls for consideration, since one scoops up water with them. The jurists have said: “If one intends to scoop up water, the water does not become used; if one intends to wash one’s hands in it, it becomes used; and if one has neither intention, there are two views.”

The correct view is that the water does not become used even if one intends to wash one’s hands in it, since this practice is established in the Sunnah. This implies that washing them with the intention of scooping up water does not purify them; rather, another washing is necessary.