How Should a Person Without Both Hands Perform Istinja and Wudu?

Question

A person has both hands cut off up to the elbows. How will he attain purity after urinating and defecating? Will another person have the right to cleanse his private outlet (makhraj) with his own hand? And if the prayer time is running out, what should he do in that case?

Answer

If he is unable to use water, then for the validity of the prayer he is not, according to the Shari‘a, compelled or obligated to have someone else wash his private outlet: his prayer will be valid without using water. In such a state of necessity, in place of wudu (ablution)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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