If there is ejaculation without penetration during intimacy, is ghusl obligatory and does the fast break?
Question:
If a person, while awake, ejaculates during intimacy (coming close) with his wife without penetration, does ghusl become obligatory in such a state? And does the fast break?
Answer:
الحمد لله، والصلاة والسلام علىٰ رسول الله، أما بعد!
If, while awake, ejaculation occurs as a result of intimacy without penetration (sexual intercourse), and the ejaculation is accompanied by desire and is forceful (with force), then in such a case ghusl becomes obligatory.
As the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“إنما الماء من الماء”
Meaning: “Ghusl is obligatory only upon the emission of semen.”
Ejaculation during sleep:
If a person wakes from sleep and feels wetness on his clothes, and is certain that it is semen, then ghusl is obligatory for him, whether or not he remembers the dream.
If the semen was emitted with desire, or without force and desire, in both cases ghusl is necessary.
Ruling on ejaculation while fasting:
If a person, while fasting, kisses his wife and ejaculation results from it, then in this case the fast breaks and making up the fast (qada) is obligatory.
However, Imam Ibn Hazm al-Zahiri differs on this matter. He says that if someone ejaculates, the fast does not break even then. He strengthened this view and adopted this position.
Reference:
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