Question:
Salam,
1. Apa hukum menelan air liur ketika shalat mengikut dalam mazhab syafie’?
2. Jika air liur itu sedikit atau banyak bagaimana?
3. Bagaimana jika air liur itu bercampur dengan benda asing, saperti darah dari gusi atau gigi, atau sisa makanan yang terselit pada gigi?.
Salam, Terima kasih
Translation:
salam,
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
The Salat is valid if one swallows saliva as long as the latter has not exited the mouth before it is swallowed, even if a lot; if mixed with blood it invalidates Salat because it is impure, as for food swallowed unintentionally it is OK if a small amount.
The Reliance of the Traveller states:
“The prayer is invalidated when any (even if a little) substance (other than saliva) reaches the body cavity intentionally. It also invalidates the prayer if it occurs absentmindedly or in ignorance of its prohibition, provided the amount of the substance is commonly acknowledge to be much (*), though not if it is little.
(*) “In rulings of Sacred Law, the application of key descriptive terms like little, much, near, far, briefly, at length, and so forth, is governed by the concept of common acknowledgement (`urf). To know whether something is little or much, which could be stipulations in a particular ruling, we stop to reflect whether it is commonly acknowledged as such, namely, whether most people would describe it as such when speaking about it. Common acknowledgement also takes into consideration what is normal or expected under the circumstances. For example, a few drops of animal blood on the clothes of a butcher would be little, while the same amount on the clothes of a student would be much.”
Hajj Gibril Haddad
