Al-Kāfi - The Book of Taharat (Cleansing)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Taharat (Cleansing) Chapter: Taking Wudu’ With Water from Which Animals, Beasts and Birds Have Drunk َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَ٠َاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) عَنْ جَرَّةٍ وُجِدَ فِيهَا خُنْفَسَاءُ قَدْ ٠َاتَتْ قَالَ أَلْقِهَا وَتَوَضَّأْ ٠ِنْهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ عَقْرَباً فَأَرِقِ الْ٠َاءَ وَتَوَضَّأْ ٠َاءٍ غَيْرِهِ وَعَنْ رَجُلٍ ٠َعَهُ إِنَاءَانِ فِيهِ٠َاءٌ وَقَعَ فِي أَحَدِهِ٠َا قَذَرٌ وَلاَ يَدْرِي أَيُّهُ٠َا هُوَ لَيْسَ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى ٠َاءٍ غَيْرِهِ قَالَ يُهَرِيقُهُ٠6.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from Sama‘ah who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a jar in which a beetle is found dead.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Throw it away then use the water for Wudu’; but if it is a scorpion, then throw the water away and use some other water for Wudu’.’ I then asked him (the Imam) about a man who has two water containers of which he knows one is unclean but does not know exactly which one and he is not able to find other water.

He (the Imam) said, ‘He must throw away the water in both containers and take a Tayammum instead of Wudu’.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/37))