Chapter on Ruling of Treatment for the Fasting Person, Kohl, Cupping, the Tooth-Stick (Siwak), Entering the Bathhouse, and Other than That

Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from Muhammad ibn Yahya and others, from Muhammad ibn Ahmad, from al-Sayyari, from Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hamadhani, from Hanan ibn Sadir, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘the fasting person soaking himself in water.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “There is no harm, but he should not immerse himself in it. And the woman should not soak herself in water, because she carries water with her private part.”