Is the Urine of the Prophet (Allah Bless Him and Give Him Peace) Considered Pure by the Scholars?
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch
Question
I want to ask you concerning the urine of the Prophets (Allah give them peace). Is their urine pure? What is the view of the majority of the scholars?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
The Purity of the Prophet’s Urine (Allah Bless Him and Give Him Peace)
Qadi Iyad of the Maliki School mentions the following narration in his famous text al-Shifa:
“The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) had a bowl made of date palm branches that he would place under his bed. He would urinate in it at night. One night, he urinated in it and later (when he intended to pour it out) he look for it but found it empty. He asked Baraka (the servant of his wife Umm Habiba) about it, who replied, “I woke up thirsty, and I drank it, but I did not know what it was.”
Commentary on This Narration
Commenting on this narration, Mulla ‘Ali Qari of the Hanafi School offers multiple other supporting narrations that strengthen the above narration and offer the possibility (as he explains) that this happened multiple times.
He mentions in one narration the Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) laughed and replied, “In that case you will never feel hunger again.”
In another narration, he replied, “You will have good health, O Mother of Yusuf.” The woman was known to not have experienced sickness for the rest of her life. [Mulla ‘Ali Qari, Sharh al-Shifa]
In the above narrations, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) did not object nor command them to wash their mouths out. This is an indication to the purity of the urine of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace).
The Authenticity of the Narration
In the text, Majma‘ al-Zawa’id, the great scholar Nur al-Din Haytami said that the narrators of this hadith are the same narrators found in the chains of Imam Bukhari. [Haytami, Majma‘ al-Zawa’id]
Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.
He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.
In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.
