Bismillahi Al-Rahmani Al-Rahim
Oddities Regarding Najasah (Revisited)
Q
I don't clearly understand the position because it seems like you
are saying two seemingly contradictory things.
1] If you urinate in a body of water greater than 212 liters (qullatain?),
then according to the hanbali madhab is that water considered tahir (and
not tahoor), even if it was the ocean or a lake? Please use the fiqi arabic
terms as it gets blurry with english translated words..thank you.
p.s. please provide the sources of hadeeth for the opinion..
A
This group is for Hanbali fiqh, not hadith and takhrij. Besides,
this is not really a problem of authenticity but one of istidlal
and istinbat.
As for the hadith, one single mutaffaq `alayhi: hadith will do
The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: "You should not
urinate in stagnate water and then wash from it", and another phrasing
found in Bukhari but not Muslim: "...and then wash in it". This hadith
includes small amounts and great amounts of water and it is specific to
urine, and it has a higher degree of authenticity than hadith
al-qullatayn. so it is given precedence. This comes straight
out of Ibn Qudamah's Al-Mughi.
As for specific large bodies of water, I wrote: "unless it is very
difficult to protect the water from such an event". Here is a case of
istithna based on an `illah: so when the `illah
exists then this istithna will occur. Or plainer in English: here
is a case where there is an exception triggered by a specific cause: so
when the cause exists then the exception is triggered.
Where's the contradiction? Anyone else see what just "seems" to be a
contradiction?
wa al-salamu `alaykum
--musa