Ruling Regarding Offering Salah While Wearing Gloves

Darulifta Ahlesunnat

(Dawateislami)

Question

   What do the noble scholars and jurists of Islamic law say about the following: Ruling regarding the Salah offered while wearing gloves due to the cold?

بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ

اَلْجَوَابُ بِعَوْنِ الْمَلِکِ الْوَھَّابِ اَللّٰھُمَّ ھِدَایَۃَ الْحَقِّ وَالصَّوَابِ

   Offering Salah while wearing pure gloves is undoubtedly permissible, as it’s not required to offer Salah barehanded. The Beloved Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ و سلم also offered Salah while covering his hands with a cloth due to the cold or other reasons. If there is no valid reason, men should offer Salah barehanded while women, in most cases, should cover their hands in their shawls as there is more veiling in this.

   Hazrat Waail bin Hujrرضي الله عنه saw the Beloved Prophetصلی اللہ علیہ و سلم offering Salah and explained it:

رفع یدیہ حین دخل فی الصلاۃ کبر "وصف ھمام حیال اذنیہ"ثم التحف بثوبہ،ثم وضع یدہ الیمنی علی الیسری،   فلما اراد ان یرکع اخرج یدہ من الثوب‘

   Translation: When heصلی اللہ علیہ و سلم began the Salah, he raised his hands and said Takbir e Tahrimah (Humam states that he raised his hands to the ears) then covering his hands in his clothes, he placed his right hand on his left hand. After that, when he intended to perform Ruku, he took his hands out of his clothes.(Sahih al-Muslim, Vol. 1, p. 173, Publ. Karachi)

   Mulla ‘Ali Qariرحمۃ اللہ علیہ states regarding “التحف بثوبہ” (He covered with his clothes):

’’ای :تستّر بہ،یعنی:اخرج یدہ من الکمّ حین کبر للاحرام ولما فرغ من التکبیر ادخل یدہ فی کمیہ ،قال ابن الملک:ولعل التحاف یدہ بکمیہ لبرد شدید او لبيان ان كشف اليدين فی غير التكبير غير واجب،قلت:فيه انه عند التكبير ايضاً غير واجب،بل مستحب‘‘

   Translation: The Beloved Prophetصلی اللہ علیہ و سلم took out his blessed hands from his sleeves to perform Takbir-e-Tahrimah, and when he got done with Takbir, he inserted his hands in his sleeves. Ibn Malik states: “It’s likely that inserting the hands in the sleeves was due to the severe cold or to explain that revealing the hands is not Wajib other than Takbir-e-Tahrimah. I say that revealing hands in Takbir-e-Tahrimah is also not Wajib but Mustahab.(Mirqat al-Mafatih Sharah Mishkat al-Masabih, Vol.  2, p. 657, Publ. Dar al-Fikr, Beirut)

   It is stated in Multaqa al-Abhur and its Sharah, Majma’ al-Anhur, in the chapter regarding the Mustahabbat of Salah:

"(واخراج کفیہ من کمیہ عند التکبیر)لانہ اقرب الی التواضع وابعد من التشبہ بالجبابرۃ وامکن من نشر الاصابع،الا لضرورۃ البرد ونحوہ،قید بدر الدین العینی بالاول، فقال: عند التکبیر الاول،لکن المصنف اطلقہ وفیہ اشعار بانہ یجوز ادخالھما فی الکمین فی غیر حال التکبیرلکن الاولی اخراجھما فی جمیع الاحوال،ھذا فی الرجال واما النساء فتجعل یدیھا فی کمیھا"

(Majma’ al-Anhur Sharah Multaqa al-Abhur, Vol. 1, p. 91, Publ. Dar Ihya al-Turas, Beirut)

وَاللہُ اَعْلَمُ عَزَّوَجَلَّ وَرَسُوْلُہ اَعْلَم صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم

(Allah Almighty knows best and His Messenger صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم knows best.)

Answered By: Muhammad Farhan Afzal Attari

Verified by: Mufti Muhammad Qasim Attari

Ref No: PIN-7380

Date: 25th Jumad al-Ukhra 1445 AH/ 8th January 2024