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78. Anas bin Mālik narrated: "The Companions of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ would sleep, then stand to pray, and they would not perform Wudū.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
[He said:] "I heard Ṣāliḥ bin 'Abdullāh saying: 'I asked ['Abdullāh] bin Al-Mubārak about one who slept sitting erect?' He said: 'Wudū' is not required from him.'"
[Abū 'Eisā] said: The Ḥadīth of Ibn 'Abbās was reported by Sa'eed bin Abī 'Arūbah from Qatādah from Ibn 'Abbās, as his saying, and he did not mention Abū Al-'Āliyah in it, and he did not attribute it to the Prophet ﷺ.
The scholars differ over Wudū in the case of sleep. Most of them held the view that it is not obligatory for one to perform Wudū when he slept sitting or standing, until he were to sleep reclining. This was the saying of Ath-Thawrī, Ibn Al-Mubārak, and Aḥmad.
[He said:] Some of the scholars said: When a person sleeps such that his state of mind is overcome, it is obligatory for him to perform Wudū, this is the saying of Ishāq.[1]
Ash-Shāfi'ī said: "Whoever slept sitting, then he had a dream, or he lost control of his posture due to the slumber of sleep, then he is required to perform Wudū."
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Footnotes
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[1] This is the safer view, and one may see that Shaikh Ibn 'Uthaimīn said something similar to this in Fatāwā Arkān Al-Islām, no. 154 (Darussalam) and in Tamām Al-Minnah, Shaikh Al-Albānī explained that any sleep breaks Wudū.
Commentary
The reality is that the sleep itself does not nullify the ablution; but there is the possibility of passing wind during sleep and the breaking of wind does nullify the ablution, whereas this possibility is next to nothing during light sleep, and in the case of it happening, it can be realised.
