بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلوة والسلام على
رسوله الكريم
والعاقبة للمتقين
Recently, a popular YouTube preacher, Engineer Muhammad
Ali Mirza, came out and stated that it is from the Sunna for a man to
urinate while standing, quoting the Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari:
عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ
رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم، أَوْ قَالَ لَقَدْ أَتَى النَّبِيُّ صلى الله
عليه وسلم سُبَاطَةَ قَوْمٍ فَبَالَ قَائِمًا
Hudhaifa (may Allah be pleased
with him) said: “I saw Allah’s Apostle (peace and blessing of Allah be upon
him)” - or he said - “The Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon
him) came to the dumps of a people and urinated while standing” (Sahih al-Bukhari
#2471)
While this Hadith is certainly
true, to understand from it that it is a “Sunna” to urinate while standing is a
great error. The truth is that an isolated incident under special circumstances
cannot become a Sunna if it is contrary to the regularly practiced Sunna of the
Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him).
The Hadith has been quoted in Mishkat al-Masabih, where
the author, Khatib al-Tabrizi (d. 741 H), comments:
كان ذالك لعُذرٍ
“That was for an excuse”
(Mishkhat ul-Masabih #364):
Meaning, the Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be
upon him) only urinated while standing at that spot because to sit and urinate
there would have soiled his clothing. This does not mean that men should
therefore urinate while standing regularly, but is a proof that they may do so
in order to save their clothes from being soiled, i.e., under exceptional
circumstances.
This is why the Mother of the Believers, sayyidatuna A’isha
(may Allah be pleased with her) said:
مَنْ حَدَّثَكُمْ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يَبُولُ قَائِمًا
فَلاَ تُصَدِّقُوهُ مَا كَانَ يَبُولُ إِلاَّ قَاعِدًا
“Whoever relates to you that the Prophet sall Allahu
alayhi wasallam would urinate while standing then do not accept it, for he
did not urinate except while seated.” (Jami at-Tirmidhi #12)
So it is established that the Prophet’s Sunna is to
urinate while seated, and this was his consistent, regular practice. The
misguided engineer has made a grievious error by stating that to urinate while
standing is the Sunna and should repent from his reckless ignorance through
which he is leading his blind-followers astray. According to some other Hadith,
though they may contain some slight weakness, the Prophet (peace and blessing
of Allah upon him) expressly forbade urinating while standing:
عَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ رَآنِي النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَأَنَا أَبُولُ قَائِمًا
فَقَالَ " يَا عُمَرُ لاَ تَبُلْ قَائِمًا " . فَمَا بُلْتُ قَائِمًا
بَعْدُ
Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I saw the
Prophet sall Allahu alayhi wasallam while I was urinating standing, so he said:
“O Umar, do not urinate while standing”. After that I never urinated while
standing. (ibid)
Similarly, sayyidina Umar radi Allahu anhu said:
مَا بُلْتُ قَائِمًا مُنْذُ أَسْلَمْتُ
“I have not urinated while standing since I became a
Muslim” (ibid)
And the great jurist of the companions, sayyidina Ibn
Mas’ud (radi Allahu anhu) stated:
إِنَّ مِنَ الْجَفَاءِ أَنْ تَبُولَ وَأَنْتَ قَائِمٌ
“Among the loathsome things is to urinate while you are
standing” (ibid)
According to another Hadith (Sunan Abi Dawud #22), the
Prophet peace be upon him once urinated while sitting, concealing himself with
his leather shield, and so the people said, “he urinates like a woman”. But the
Prophet peace be upon him answered them and explained that the purpose is to
avoid being soiled, so it is better for a man to urinate while seated, and that
is his Sunna. Other well known Hadith confirm the fact that it is a great sin
for a person to be careless while urinating, becausing being careless will lead
to his clothes becoming polluted, and the punishment of the grave is due to
this pollution.
Some Muslims have sadly begun imitating the ways of the
Europeans and other disbelieving nations, adapting their impure habits such as
urinating while standing.
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