Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

than half of a person’s limbs of ablution and/or ghusl is sore, he
makes a tayammum (instead of an ablution and/or ghusl). If the
parts that are sore covers an area half of the limbs (of ablution
and/or ghusl), then he washes the healthy parts and makes masah
on the sore parts; if the masah will cause harm to the sore parts,
then he makes masah on the bandages. If this also will cause harm,
then he does not make masah, either. If there is a sore on his head,
so that masah will cause harm, he will be absolved from (having to
make) masah. Supposing there are cuts on the places that are farz
to wash (when making an ablution) of both hands of a person
whose face is sore, too; then that person will not be able to make a
tayammum; so he performs namâz without an ablution, and will
not have to reperform the namâz performed. If his face is healthy,
he has his face washed. If he does not have a helper he rubs his face
(gently) on soil. If one of the hands of a healthy person is
apoplectic or wounded or cut or crippled, he makes an ablution
with his other hand. If his both hands are so, he rubs his face on
soil. If the bandage or piece of wood or ointment or plaster cast
applied perforce on a sore or abscessed or broken limb for
treatment and protection cannot be removed and so that part of
the limb cannot be washed or made masah on, masah is made on
the major part of its surface and on the healthy skin in between. If
possible, it is necessary to remove the bandage or the piece of
wood or the ointment or the plaster cast, make masah on the
problematic area, and wash the healthy area of the skin. These
things do not necessarily have to be applied after making an
ablution; nor is there a deadline for their usage. It is permissible to
wash the healthy foot and make masah on the bandage on the
other one. If the thing put on it falls off before the injury heals, the
ablution will not become nullified. Nor will it become nullified if
the bandage is changed after masah has been made on it. If the
ointment applied on a broken or injured nail or on a cut on one’s
foot should not be removed because it will be harmful to remove
it, one has been involved in an impasse called ‘quandary’, in which
case one washes the outer part of the ointment. In case washing
may be harmful, one makes masah on it. If masah may be harmful,
too, then one does not make masah, either. [Since the same rule
applies in the other three Madhhabs as well, it is out of the
question to imitate another Madhhab.] That this ointment is like a
splint is written in the book entitled Ibni ’Âbidîn. However, having
one’s teeth filled or crowned is quite a different matter. For, it is
possible to imitate Mâlikî or Shâfi’î Madhhab. If a person loses his
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