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Can you give me exact details from hadeeths on the passing of wind after or during making ablution, and also on the idea that one should definitely make ablution when one has a movement in the stomach and hears a sound from the anus which is the passing of wind (I haven't personally read this hadeeth but I have been told about it, and don't really know about it's authenticity)?

Praise be to Allah.If a person

is sure that he has passed wind, then he has to do wudoo’, but if it

is simply the movement of gas in the stomach, or he imagines that he

may have passed wind, then he should not pay any attention to it. The

evidence that the mere movement of gas in the stomach or imagining that

one may have passed wind does not invalidate wudoo’ is the hadeeth whose

authenticity is agreed upon, narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Zayd, who

said:

“The Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was asked about a man who

felt something during his prayer – should he stop praying? He said,

‘No, not unless you hear a sound or detect an odour.’” (Narrated by

al-Bukhaari, 1915; Muslim, 540). Al-Nawawi said: this hadeeth sets out

the principle that things should remain as they are unless one is certain

that they have changed; doubt does not affect the status quo.

Ibn Hajar

said: the majority of scholars followed this hadeeth.

Paying attention to these doubts

may lead to one being affected by insinuating whispers of the Shaytaan

(waswaas), so we must not pay attention to that, except in cases where

wind is definitely passed. Then wudoo’ is required. Al-Nawawi said,

concerning the phrase “unless you hear a sound or detect an odour”:

“it is sufficient to know that one or the other is present; it is not

a condition that both the sound and the odour be present, according

to the consensus of the Muslims.” What is meant here by knowing is being

certain. And Allaah knows best.

Source: IslamQA (Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid)
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