Can you do Salat with the same Wudhu'?
Salaam.
Many Quran-alone followers say that Wudhu' is required for each prayer, based on the command found in the sixth verse in Al-Maa'idah:
>O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles. And if you are in a state of janabah, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and hands with it. Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you that you may be grateful. - 5:6
It's implied that for each prayer, you need to restart Wudhu', and it's not valid to do multiple prayers with just one Wudhu' as long as you don't break it, which is what is mentioned in Sunni jurisprudence.
When I looked, however, to the Sunni justification of one Wudhu' being able to suffice for all prayers [as long as it isn't broken], it is mentioned that the rising part mentioned in 5:6 doesn't mean initiating the prayer, it means if you're rising from your beds/places of rest, i.e. from sleep, then you need to make Wudhu' for prayer.
This seemingly literal interpretation was brought by Zayd ibn Aslam, son of Aslam, freed slave of Umar ibn Al-Khattab. It is an interesting opinion, as it justifies the other traditional claim that sleep also breaks Wudhu'. It is also mentioned that this was the Ijmaa' [i.e. the consensus] amongst the early generations of Muslims that you can do any prayer with just one intact Wudhu'.
I see problem with this. Does this imply that Allah isn't detailing in his book how to do Wudhu' for Salat in general, just for when you wake up for sleep? Then again, I guess this can be answered with the later part of the verse, where Allah states:
>...Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you...
Maybe it can be implied that the intention of purification mentioned above indicates Wudhu' being necessary for prayer in general.
I would like to know what you all think. Is it more right to do multiple prayers with one Wudhu', or do you need to do Wudhu' for each prayer?