Do muslim's use toilet paper to wipe?

Answer 1

most Muslims use water. think about it, what is more hygienic using paper to wipe yourself or to wash yourself? Muslims do use toilet paper to dry themselves after they wash. ifs not like we use our hands...

Answer 2

When a person relieves himself, he must cleanse himself of impurities either with water - which is best and most perfect - or with something other than water which will remove the impurities, such as toilet paper, fabric, stones or something else.

Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen said:

When a person relieves himself, he must do one of the following three things.

1 - He may purify himself with water, which is permissible. The evidence for that is the hadeeth of Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to relieve himself, then another boy and I would bring a vessel of water and a short spear [to use as a sutrah for the prayer he was going to do after doing wudoo'] and he would cleanse himself with the water."

(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 149; Muslim, 271)

The reason for that is that the basic way of removing impurities is to use water. Just as you use water to remove any impurities from your foot, so too you use it to remove any impurities resulting from relieving yourself.

2 - He may purify himself using stones. Doing istijmaar or removing impurities with stones is sufficient. This is indicated by the words and actions of the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). With regard to his words, Salmaan (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade us to use less than three stones for the purpose of istijmaar."

(Narrated by Muslim, 262).

With regard to his actions, Ibn Mas'ood (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) went out to answer the call of nature and asked me to bring him three stones. I found two stones and searched for a third but could not find one. So I took a piece of dried dung and brought it to him. He took the two stones and threw away the dung and said, 'This is a filthy thing.'"

(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 122).

The hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah, which states that he gathered some stones for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and brought them to him in his garment, put them down next to him then went away (narrated by al-Bukhaari, 154) indicates that istijmaar (using stones to cleanse oneself after relieving oneself) is permissible.

3 - Cleaning oneself with stones thenwith water.

I do not know of any report to this effect from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), but there is no doubt that this is more effective in cleaning.

Answer 3

The left hand is is used for wiping.