Tuesday 15 March 2016

The Permissibility of Talking while Using the Toilet



Jaabir bin Abdullaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that a man passed by the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) while he was urinating and greeted him with the greeting of peace. Then the Messenger of Allaah said, “If you see me in a situation like this, do not greet me with the greeting of peace, because if you do that, I will not respond to you”[1]

Shaykh al-Albaanee (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The apparent meaning of this hadeeth is that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said that while urinating. So it contains the proof of the permissibility of talking while using the toilet. As regards the hadeeth reported that Allaah detests that; despite the fact that it is not authentic from the angle of its chain, it is unclear concerning it. It was reported with this wording: “No two men should talk to each other while answering the call of nature and each of them looking at the awrah of his companion, for Allaah abhors that.”[2]

This text only indicates the prohibition of this state: that is, conversation and looking at the awrah.  It does not contain evidence that conversation alone – even though it is distasteful - is among that which Allaah blessed and exalted be He abhors. Rather, this requires a proof that would necessitate its prohibition, and it is something we could not find. Unlike the prohibition of looking at the awrah [of others], it is established in other narrations.

Source: Nudhum al-Faraa’id mimma fee Silsilati al-Albaanee min Fawaa’id, vol. 1, p. 246 by Abdul-Lateef bin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abee Rabee’



[1] As-Saheehah, 197
[2] A similar version of this hadeeth was graded Saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaanee in as-Saheehah no. 3120

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