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Question ID: 157732Country: India
Answer ID: 157732
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 1318/1362/H=3/1439)
(1) What forced your wife to change her madhhab?
(2) If she did not put water in her nose and mouth then ghusl was not valid. Whatsoever salah she offered with this incomplete ghusl without making wudhu all were invalid. Now estimate how many salah she might have offered in this state she should offer that much salah again. However, those salah will be valid which she offered after making wudhu though after passing a long time of ghusl and while doing the wudhu she entered water in her nose and mouth or she gargled without wudhu and entered water in the nose and then offered salah in the state of wudhu.
(3) She should also reoffer all those Fajr sunnah and Witr salah which she offered in sitting position without a Shariah excuse. However, there is no problem if she does not reoffer sunnah muwakkidah salah.
(4) Keep on convincing your wife with wisdom and politeness. However, it would be better if your wife reads Bahishti Zewar, Talimul Islam, Tohafa-e-Khawateen (written by Maulana Mufti Muhammad Ashique Ilahi Sahib Bulandshahri RA) or you read it before her.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India