Al-Kāfi - The Book of Taharat (Cleansing)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Taharat (Cleansing) Chapter: The Case of a Well and Things that May Fall in It (Fatwa best explains Ahadith 2-12 as well as the following chapter.) ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى رَجُلٍ أَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) عَنِ الْبِئْرِ تَكُونُ فِي الْ٠َنْزِلِ لِلْوُضُوءِ فَتَقْطُرُ فِيهَا قَطَرَاتٌ ٠ِنْ بَوْلٍ أَوْ دَ٠ٍ أَوْ يَسْقُطُ فِيهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ ٠ِنْ عَذِرَةٍ كَالْبَعْرَةِ وَنَحْوِهَا ٠َا الَّذِي يُطَهِّرُهَا حَتَّى يَحِلَّ الْوُضُوءُ ٠ِنْهَا لِلصَّلاَةِ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) بِخَطِّهِ فِي كِتَابِي تَنْزَحُ ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Bazi‘ who has said the following: “I once wrote to a person to write to abu al-Hassan al-Rida (a.s.), to ask him about a well in one’s house for Wudu’. If some drops of urine, or blood, or animal dung and so forth fall in it, then how can it be cleansed so one can take Wudu’ with water from such a well for Salah (prayer).

He (the Imam) sent the answer with his signature that said, ’Draw a few buckets of water from it and dispose such water away.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/22))