Ruling on touching the penis with the right hand
Question

                What is the ruling on touching the penis with the right hand in general?

What is the ruling on touching it in the washroom? 

What is the ruling on touching it during intercourse?.
Praise be to Allah.
	It is makrooh to 
	touch the penis with the right hand when urinating, because of the hadeeth 
	of Abu Qataadah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of 
	Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “When one of you 
	drinks, he should not breathe into the vessel, and when he relieves himself, 
	he should not touch his penis with his right hand or wipe himself with his 
	right hand.”

	Narrated by 
	al-Bukhaari, 194; Muslim, 393.

	According to 
	another report narrated by Muslim (392): “No one among you should touch his 
	penis with his right hand when urinating.” 

	Shaykh ‘Abdullah 
	ibn Saalih al-Fawzaan (may Allah preserve him) said: 

	This hadeeth 
	indicates that it is not allowed for the one who is urinating to hold his 
	penis with his right hand whilst urinating, because this is contrary to 
	honouring the right hand. 

	The majority of 
	scholars interpreted this prohibition as meaning that it is makrooh – as 
	stated by an-Nawawi and others – because that comes under the heading of 
	etiquette and good manners, and because it comes under the heading of 
	protecting the dignity of the right hand. This prohibition does not go so 
	far as meaning that this action is haraam (rather it is makrooh and 
	disliked). 

	Dawood az-Zaahiri 
	and Ibn Hazm were of the view that it is prohibited in the sense of being 
	haraam, based on the principle that prohibition of a thing means that it is 
	haraam. 

	But the view of 
	the majority is more likely to be correct, and that this prohibition is by 
	way of showing etiquette and proper manners. This is supported by, among 
	other things, the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon 
	him) about the penis: “Is it anything other than a part of you…?” 

	End quote from 
	Minhah al-‘Allaam Sharh Buloogh al-Maraam, 1/312 

	Al-Khattaabi (may 
	Allah have mercy on him) said: Touching the penis with the right hand is 
	only disliked so as to protect it from touching part of the body that could 
	be unclean and dirty. The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) 
	used his right hand for eating, drinking and dressing himself, and his left 
	hand for other bodily functions.

	End quote from 
	Ma‘aalim as-Sunan, 1/23 

	Shaykh Ibn 
	‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said: 

	Because when a 
	person is urinating, some drops may fall on him, and if that happens, they 
	should fall on the left hand, not the right hand. But sometimes a person may 
	be compelled to do that (use the right hand), and if that is the case then 
	there is nothing wrong with it, such as if he cannot move his left hand; in 
	that case he has no choice but to touch his penis with his right hand, and 
	there is nothing wrong with it. But when there is no need for that, the 
	Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) forbade that and said: 
	“No one among you should touch his penis with his right hand when he is 
	urinating.”

	End quote from 
	ash-Sharh al-Mukhtasar li Buloogh al-Maraam. 

	Secondly: 

	In the hadeeth, 
	this prohibition is limited to when one is urinating, so it may be 
	understood that it is permissible at other times. 

	In his Saheeh, 
	al-Bukhaari (may Allah have mercy on him) named one of his chapters, 
	“Chapter: One should not hold the penis with the right hand when he 
	urinates.  

	Al-Haafiz (may 
	Allah have mercy on him) said: In this title, he indicated that what is 
	narrated about not touching the penis with the right hand in general terms, 
	as in the preceding chapter, is to be interpreted in the light of the 
	reports that are more specific and state that this applies when one is 
	urinating, so in other situations it is permissible.

	End quote from 
	Fath al-Baari, 1/254 

	In his Sunan, 
	Abu Dawood (may Allah have mercy on him) named one of his chapters: It is 
	makrooh to touch the penis with the right hand when cleaning oneself. 

	In at-Taaj 
	wa’l-Ikleel (1/388) it says: The fuqaha’ understood this as meaning that 
	it is makrooh, and the prohibition on touching it in the other hadeeth is 
	limited to when one is cleaning oneself. End quote. 

	Based on that, it 
	is permissible to touch it with the right hand during intercourse, unless 
	there is the fear that that hand may be contaminated with madhiy, in which 
	case it is makrooh. 

	And Allah knows best.