Chapter on Tayammum and Its Rules
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 8
اَلصَّفَّارُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ وُهَيْبِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنْ قَوْمٍ كَانُوا فِي سَفَرٍ فَأَصَابَ بَعْضَهُمْ جَنَابَةٌ وَ لَيْسَ مَعَهُمْ مِنَ اَلْمَاءِ إِلاَّ مَا يَكْفِي اَلْجُنُبَ لِغُسْلِهِ يَتَوَضَّئُونَ هُمْ هُوَ أَفْضَلُ أَوْ يُعْطُونَ اَلْجُنُبَ فَيَغْتَسِلُ وَ هُمْ لاَ يَتَوَضَّئُونَ فَقَالَ« يَتَوَضَّئُونَ هُمْ وَ يَتَيَمَّمُ اَلْجُنُبُ».
Narrated by Al-Saffar, from Muhammad ibn Al-Husayn, from Wahib ibn Hafs, from Abu Basir, who said:
I asked Abu Abdullah عليه السلام about a group of people on a journey, and one of them becomes in a state of janabah (major ritual impurity). They only have enough water for one person to perform ghusl. Should they all perform wudu, which is better, or should they give the water to the one in janabah so that he may perform ghusl while they do not perform wudu? Imam عليه السلام said: "They should perform wudu, and the one in janabah should perform tayammum."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 200
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 100