It is not permissible for someone to say: Why did you determine forty buckets for a cat, dog, and similar creatures, while for a chicken and bird, you specified seven buckets? In these two narrations, there is no explicit statement about exactly forty buckets; rather, it is implied as an option. Why did you not act upon other narrations that mention fewer amounts than what you have mentioned? The reason is that when we act upon what we have mentioned, removing forty buckets for what fell in involving a dog or similar creatures, and seven buckets for what fell in involving a chicken or similar creatures, there is no disagreement among our scholars about the permissibility of using the remaining water. Additionally, the narrations that mention less than this amount would be included within this framework. However, if we were to act otherwise, we would be disregarding these two narrations entirely and siding with the disputed ones. For this reason, we acted upon the maximum amount reported in the narrations. Among the narrations that mention lesser amounts for removal is the following report (following hadith).