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309. It was narrated that Jābir bin 'Abdullāh said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ forbade us to urinate
while standing." (Da'if)
I heard Muhammad bin Yazid, Abu 'Abdullāh,[1] say: "I heard Ahmad bin 'Abdur-Rahmān Al-Makhzumi say: 'Sufyān Ath-Thawri said concerning the Hadīth of 'Aishah – T (always) saw him urinating whilst sitting down' – a man knows more about that (about such matters) than she.' Ahmad bin 'Abdur-Rahmān said: 'It was the custom of the Arabs to urinate standing up. Do you not see that in the Hadīth of 'Abdur-Rahmān bin Hasanah it was said: 'He sits down to urinate as a woman does.'"[2]
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Commentary
308 & 309
Both the above Ahādīth are Weak. As such no cognizance can be taken of them, and no interdiction on urinating in the standing position can be proved from them. There is, however, no doubt that the Prophet's normal practice was to urinate in the sitting position. As such the believers should follow this practice. The main issue in this context is to avoid defiling one's clothes from the splash of urine. Failure to take care of that is not pardonable, since there are strict warnings against it in the Ahādīth of the Prophet ﷺ.
