How long does the ablution of an excused person performed for fajr prayer last?
According to the view preferred by the Hanafi school, the ablution of an excused person is invalidated when the prayer time ends. Accordingly, an ablution performed for fajr prayer is invalidated when the fajr time ends (when the sun rises). However, if an excused person performs ablution when his/her excuse ceases temporarily within fajr time and the sun rises before his/her excuse reoccurs and any other thing to invalidate his ablution happens, his/her ablution is not invalidated even when the prayer time ends.
The excused person may establish as many prayers as s/he wants until the end of dhuhr time, including Friday prayer, with the ablution s/he performed after sunrise unless other things that may invalidate his/her ablution happens because the prayer time has not ended yet (Marghinani, al-Hidayah, I, 223; Kasani, Bada’i, I, 29).
According to the Maliki school, the ablution of an excused person is not nullified by the beginning or end of the prayer times but by the things that invalidate ablution other than one’s excuse. (Ibn Rushd, Bidayah, I, 35; Dasuqi, Hashiyah, I, 114-118).
In the event that the excuse of a person causes an extreme hardship to the excused person and s/he has serious difficulties while performing ablution, s/he may act by this view of the Maliki school.
Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWAS
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