Is ablution invalidated if one bleeds after making ablution?

 

Is ablution invalidated if one bleeds after making ablution?

 

Only bleeding doesn't invalidate the ablution (Wudhu), but the flowing of blood invalidates it. As given in the Hadith of Sunan Daaraqutni:

 

Translation: It is narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Tamim Daari (May Allah be well pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: Ablution is invalidated due to flow of blood. (Sunan Daaraqutni, Hadith No. 590)

 

The great Hanafi jurist of the sixth Hijri, Allama Kasaani (May Allah  mercy be upon him) states:

 

Regarding the flow of blood the above mentioned Hadith has reached the status of "Mutawatir" (universally known).  It has been narrated similarly by ten Companions of Holy Prophet that bleeding (i.e. flowing of blood) causes the ablution (Wudhu) to be invalidated.

 

Following are names of them: Hadhrat Umar, Hadhrat Uthman, Hadhrat ‘Ali, Hadhrat ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud, Hadhrat 'Abdullah bin Abbas, Hadhrat 'Abdullah bin 'Umar, Hadhar Thaubaan and Hadhrat Abu Darda (May Allah be well pleased with all of them). It is stated that the 9th companion is Hadhrat Zaid bin Thabit and the 10th is Hadhrat Moosa ‘Ash’ari (May Allah be well pleased with them).

 

Will ablution be invalidated due to internal bleeding of eye

 

Ablution is invalidated when blood comes out and flows over.  Here the condition is that the blood should flow onto such a place washing which is compulsory in ablution and bath.

 

If the eye bleeds and the blood flows over from its place, but remains in the eye itself, then as per the rules of ablution and bathing the eye is considered to be one of the internal organs of the body, and washing the internal organs is not compulsory.

 

Here the situation is similar to the situation wherein due to an injury, blood collects under the skin but does not come out.

 

Thus, even if blood flows inside of the eye from one end to the other, the ablution will not be invalidated.  However, if the blood flows out of the eye, ablution will be invalidated.

 

As given in Durre Mukhtaar, Kitab Us Salaat and Radd Ul Muhtaar, Kitab Us Salaat.