It is referred from Imam Abul Hassan Musa – asws bin Jafar –...
It is referred from Imam Abul Hassan Musa – asws bin Jafar – asws (our 7 th Imam) that one ‘Saha’ [10] (3 litres) quantity of water is for Ghusal and one ‘mud’ (which is 750ml) of water is sufficient for performing ablutions and the Saha of the time of Rasool Allah -saww equates to the five mud and each mud would weigh 280 Dirham and each Dirham equates to 6 Dawaniq and each Dawaniq is of six grains of barley – neither too big nor too small but of average size.
And Rasool Allah -saww , in another Hadith, said, ‘there will be people among my -saww followers, soon after me -saww , who will consider this quantity of water too small and will act against my ‑saww practices but those, who will follow to my practices, will be with me in the Paradise.’ [11] وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ أَنَّ الْوُضُوءَ حَدٌّ مِنْ حُدُودِ اللَّهِ لِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ مَنْ يُطِيعُهُ وَ مَنْ يَعْصِيهِ وَ أَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَا يُنَجِّسُهُ شَيْءٌ وَ إِنَّمَا يَكْفِيهِ مِثْلُ الدَّهْنِ It is also narrated from the Imam – asws that the method of Ablutions is also tested by Allah – azwj , in order to see who obeys and who chooses not to.
And nothing will impure (make Najis) a true believer (Momin), that’s why he or she just needs little amount of water (for Ablutions). [12] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ يَأْخُذُ أَحَدُكُمُ الرَّاحَةَ مِنَ الدُّهْنِ فَيَمْلَأُ بِهَا جَسَدَهُ وَ الْمَاءُ أَوْسَعُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Al A’ala, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, from; Abu Ja’far -asws (5 th Imam) said: ‘One of you takes the comfort from the oil, so he applies to his body (by massaging), but (consider) the water is more precious than that’. (Meaning – use little water as one applies little oil).