Your wudu is valid if you wipe over the dressing or pass water over it.
Wiping over dressings that have been placed on wounds
Question: 22178
There is something like abscesses on my leg, and the treatment is to wrap the site of the abscesses with a dressing so that water does not reach it when I do wudu. What is the ruling on wudoo’ in this case?.
Answer
Praise be to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah.
Source:
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah. From Majallat al-Buhooth al-Islamiyyah, 59/139
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