Loss of Reason through Intoxication, Fainting or Insanity

F84Chapter of Ablution Nullifiers

Loss of Reason through Intoxication, Fainting or Insanity

Does loss of reason through fainting, insanity, intoxication or anaesthesia break the ablution?

Hanafi

The ablution is broken by whatever removes or veils reason — insanity, fainting or intoxication — whether the loss of reason is brief or long.

Reference: Al-Hidāyah — Radd al-Muḥtār — Tabyīn al-Ḥaqāʾiq

Maliki

The ablution is broken by loss of reason through insanity, fainting, intoxication or a swoon, since it is more complete than the sleep that breaks it.

Reference: Al-Mudawwanah — Al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr — Mawāhib al-Jalīl

Shāfiʿī

The ablution is broken by insanity, fainting, intoxication and whatever removes reason, whether the time is long or short, because discernment is absent.

Reference: Al-Umm — Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn — Al-Majmūʿ

Hanbali

The ablution is broken by every loss of reason — insanity, fainting, intoxication or full anaesthesia — because it is the likely occasion of a discharge he would not feel.

Reference: Al-Mughnī — Al-Kāfī — Kashshāf al-Qināʿ