Chapter on Purifying Water From Impurities
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 11
أَخْبَرَنَا بِهِ اَلشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَبِي اَلْقَاسِمِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ قَالَ: كَتَبْتُ إِلَى رَجُلٍ أَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ أَبَا اَلْحَسَنِ اَلرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلْبِئْرِ يَكُونُ فِي اَلْمَنْزِلِ لِلْوُضُوءِ فَتَقْطُرُ فِيهَا قَطَرَاتٌ مِنْ بَوْلٍ أَوْ دَمٍ أَوْ يَسْقُطُ فِيهَا شَيْءٌ مِنْ عَذِرَةٍ كَالْبَعْرَةِ أَوْ نَحْوِهَا مَا اَلَّذِي يُطَهِّرُهَا حَتَّى يَحِلَّ اَلْوُضُوءُ مِنْهَا لِلصَّلاَةِ فَوَقَّعَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ فِي كِتَابِي بِخَطِّهِ« يُنْزَحُ مِنْهَا دِلاَءٌ».
The narration was reported to us by the Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, through Abu Al-Qasim Ja’far ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Ya'qub, from a group of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Isma’il ibn Bazi’, who said:
I wrote to a man, asking him to inquire from Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ridha عليه السلام about a well in a house used for ablution, into which a few drops of urine or blood fall, or something like dung, such as droppings or the like. What purifies it so that performing ablution from it for prayer becomes permissible? Imam عليه السلام responded in his handwriting in my letter: 'Draw some buckets of water from it.'
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 260
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