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Benefits:

➊ These ahadith are evidence that the ruling of performing ablution (wudu) after eating something cooked over fire has been abrogated. Therefore, eating something cooked over fire does not break ablution, and if one is already in a state of ablution before eating, there is no need to perform ablution again after eating something cooked over fire.

➋ Imam Nawawi rahimahullah writes that the position of the majority of the early and later generations is that eating something cooked over fire does not invalidate ablution. Accordingly, this is also the view of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, Abu al-Darda, Ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Umar, Anas ibn Malik, Jabir ibn Samurah, Zayd ibn Thabit, Abu Musa, Abu Hurairah, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Abu Talhah, Amir ibn Rabi'ah, Abu Umamah, and Aisha radi Allahu anhum. This is also the position of the majority of the Tabi'in, and Malik, Shafi'i, Abu Hanifah, Ahmad, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Yahya ibn Yahya, and Abu Khuthaymah rahimahumullah also hold this view. However, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Hasan al-Basri, al-Zuhri, Abu Qilabah, and Abu Majliz rahimahullah are of the opinion that after eating something cooked over fire, it is obligatory to perform the prescribed ablution. Their evidence is the hadith: "Perform ablution from whatever has been touched by fire."

Whereas the majority of scholars have used as evidence those ahadith in which the abandonment of ablution after eating something cooked over fire is mentioned, and these are considered abrogating (nasikh), while the ahadith commanding ablution after eating something cooked over fire are considered abrogated (mansukh). The majority of scholars have given two answers regarding this hadith ("Perform ablution from whatever has been touched by fire"):

1. This hadith is abrogated due to the hadith of Jabir radi Allahu anhu. [ابن خزيمه: 43]

2. By "ablution" (wudu) here, what is meant is washing the mouth and hands.

Furthermore, this mutual difference among the scholars existed in the earliest period, but after that, there has been consensus among all scholars that performing ablution after eating something cooked over fire is not obligatory. [نووي: 42/4]

➌ In any case, performing ablution after eating something cooked over fire is recommended (mustahabb). The author of *Muntaqa al-Akhbar* says that these texts [احاديث الباب] negate the obligation of ablution after using something cooked over fire, but not its recommendation. Because when the questioner asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, "Should we perform ablution after eating goat meat?" he replied: "It is up to you—if you wish, perform ablution, and if you wish, do not." If performing ablution after it were not recommended, the Prophet would not have permitted it, because then it would be extravagance and a waste of water. [نيل الاوطار: 228/1]