Chapter on Etiquettes of Causes Requiring Purification
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 3
مَا أَخْبَرَنِي بِهِ اَلشَّيْخُ أَيَّدَهُ اَللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ نُوحٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ اَلْمَاءُ اَلَّذِي لاَ يُنَجِّسُهُ شَيْءٌ قَالَ« ذِرَاعَانِ عُمْقُهُ فِي ذِرَاعٍ وَ شِبْرٍ سَعَتُهُ».
Narrated to me by the Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah سبحانه وتعالى support him, from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Al-Hasan, from his father, from Muhammad bin Yahya, from Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Yahya, from Ayyub bin Nuh, from Safwan, from Isma'il bin Jabir, who said:
I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام about the water that nothing can make impure. Imam عليه السلام said: 'Its depth is two cubits, and its width is one cubit and a span.'
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 44
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