Tawāf without ritual purity

Mufti:

Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady

تاريخ النشر: December 19, 2025

Fatwa number: 17979

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Tawāf without ritual purity

Fatwa number: 17979

Question: A man performed ṭawāf for ʿumrah, then did the saʿy and shaved. Some time later he remembered that, at the time of ṭawāf, he did not have ritual purity. What is the ruling?

Answer - And Allah grants success: The jurists of the school say that purity in ṭawāf is a rite (nusuk), not a condition for validity.1 On that basis the ʿumrah is valid, but he owes a blood-expiation (dam), due to the report: “Whoever leaves a rite owes a blood [sacrifice].”
This liability only applies if he does not repeat the ṭawāf. If he repeats the ṭawāf in a state of purity, no blood is due, and he does not have to repeat the saʿy after this ṭawāf.
That is what appears to me—Allah knows best. We say this by analogy with one who forgets ẓuhr and only remembers at night: he makes up ẓuhr and is not required to pray ʿaṣr again after it.
Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1