Praise be to Allaah.
It is not prescribed to wipe the face after making du’aa’. There are many ahaadeeth which describe how the Prophet (Sala Allahu alaihi wa salam) called upon his Lord in du’aa’, and there is no proven report that he used to wipe his face after making du’aa’.
Those who say that the face should be wiped quoted some ahaadeeth as evidence, but upon further examination they are not saheeh, and do not support one another.
As for the views of the scholars who say that it is not allowed to wipe the face, they include the following:
1 – Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: It is not known that anyone used to wipe his face after making du’aa’ except al-Hasan.
Al-‘Ilal al-Mutanaahiyah, 2/840, 841
2 – Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said: With regard to the Prophet (Sala Allahu alaihi wa salam) raising his hands when saying du’aa’, there are many saheeh ahaadeeth concerning this, but as for his wiping his face with his hands, there are only one or two hadeeths concerning that, and they cannot be taken as evidence.
Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 22/519
3 – al-‘Izz ibn ‘Abd al-Salaam said: No one wipes his face with his hands after saying du’aa’ except one who is ignorant.
Fataawa al-‘Izz ibn ‘Abd al-Salaam, p. 47
If it is not permitted to wipe the face after making du’aa’, it is more likely that the person who says du’aa’ should not be allowed to wipe his body either, or to kiss his eyes.
Rather the scholars stated that kissing the thumbs and placing them on the eyes is a bid’ah that was introduced by some of the Sufi tareeqahs, and there is a hadeeth concerning that which is falsely attributed to the Prophet (Sala Allahu alaihi wa salam).
Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen (Rahimahu Allah) was asked about the ruling on wiping the face with the hands after making du’aa’. He replied:
Wiping the face with the hands after making du’aa’ is more likely to be not prescribed in Islam, because the ahaadeeth that have been narrated concerning that are da’eef (weak). Shaykh al-Islam (Rahimahu Allah) said: They cannot be used as evidence. If we are not certain or we think it most likely that this is not prescribed, then it is better not to do it, because Islamic rulings cannot be proven on the basis of mere conjecture, unless we believe it to be mostly likely to be the case.
What I think about wiping the face with the hands after du’aa’ is that it is not Sunnah. As is well known, the Prophet (Sala Allahu alaihi wa salam) prayed for rain during his Friday khutbah and raised his hands, but it is not narrated that he wiped his face with them. Similarly in a number of ahaadeeth it says that the Prophet raised his hands, but there is no proof that he wiped his face. End quote.
Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 14/question no. 781
cite all the ahadeeth and people will judge for themselves
ReplyDeleteAt the request of one of our readers, here we leave some of the ahadeeths, proof that the Prophet (SAW) raised his hands in his pleading, but no mention of that rubbed her face with them.
ReplyDelete*Abu Musa Ashari (RA) narrated that the Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) made a dua, and I saw him raise his hands, until I could see the whitness of his armpits. (Bukhari)
*Ibn Umar (RA) narrated that the Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) raised his hands and said, "O Allah! I ask your protection for what Khalid has done". (Bukhari)
*Anas (RA) also narrated that the Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) raised his hands until I saw the whiteness of his armpits. (Bukhari)
* The Prophet (SAW) said: “Allaah is Most Generous, and He dislikes to turn away empty the hands of His slave when he raises them to Him.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 3556; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.
Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (RA) said, "As of Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) raising his hands in dua, then this has been narrated in so many Ahadeeth which cannot be counted. (Arusi, p212).
We invite other readers to post hadiths on the issue of raising the hands and rub with them the face in supplication.
As Salam alaykum wa raghmatulahi wa barakatuh