Chapter on Purifying Water From Impurities

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 11
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 11

Chapter on Purifying Water From Impurities

فَأَمَّا مَا رَوَاهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ نُوحِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ اَلْخُرَاسَانِيِّ عَنْ يَاسِينَ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ بِئْرٌ قَطَرَ فِيهَا قَطْرَةُ دَمٍ أَوْ خَمْرٍ قَالَ« اَلدَّمُ وَ اَلْخَمْرُ وَ اَلْمَيِّتُ وَ لَحْمُ اَلْخِنْزِيرِ فِي ذَلِكَ كُلُّهُ وَاحِدٌ يُنْزَحُ مِنْهُ عِشْرُونَ دَلْواً فَإِنْ غَلَبَتِ اَلرِّيحُ نُزِحَتْ حَتَّى تَطِيبَ».
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya narrated from Abu Ishaq, from Nuh ibn Shu'ayb Al-Khurasani, from Yasin, from Hariz, from Zurarah. He said: I said to Abu Abdullah عليه السلام: "A drop of blood or wine falls into a well." Imam عليه السلام said: "Blood, wine, a dead animal, and the flesh of a pig are all the same in this matter. Twenty buckets must be drawn from it. If the odor persists, it must be drawn until it becomes clean."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 256
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 24