Chapter on Rules of Janabah and Methods of Purification

Narrated by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub, from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Abdullah ibn al-Mughira, from Ibn Muskan, who said: Muhammad ibn Maysar told me: I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام about a man in a state of janabah who encounters a small amount of water on the road and wishes to perform ghusl with it, but he has no vessel to draw the water and his hands are unclean. Imam عليه السلام said: "He should place his hand in the water, perform wudu, and then perform ghusl. This is among the cases where Allah سبحانه وتعالى, the Exalted, says: 'He has not placed upon you any hardship in religion.'" (Surah Al-Hajj 22:78)