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Is there a sound, authentic text in the Sunnah that prohibits eating and drinking after waking up from sleep before performing ablution (wudu)?

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Prohibiting dipping one's hand into a vessel upon waking up is out of detestation (karaha), not prohibition (tahreem), as a precaution against it having touched an impurity. Some scholars have recommended washing hands before eating, citing a weak hadith.

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