Al-Sharḥ al-Mumtiʿ - Ibn al-'Uthaymin - (1/63)

Al-Sharḥ al-MumtiʿIbn al-'Uthaymin

For example, a man has two vessels: one contains purifying water and the other impure water, but he is unsure which is the purifying one. We say: he must avoid both of them.

If he asks, “What should I do when I wish to pray?” we say: Perform dry ablution, because you are unable to use water due to the uncertainty as to which water is purifying and which is impure. Thus, he falls under the saying of Allah, Most High: “And if you cannot find water, then perform dry ablution.” [al-Ma’idah 5:6]

Is it a condition for performing dry ablution that the two waters be poured out or mixed together? There are two views on this (1). This is why the author, may Allah have mercy on him, denied that pouring them out or mixing them is a condition: in refutation of the second view. Otherwise, there would have been no reason for his denial. He therefore said, “Nor is it stipulated …,” in response to those who maintain that pouring out the two waters, or mixing them, is required. This is one view in the madhhab.

They said: He cannot perform dry ablution until he pours out both waters, so that he truly has no water; or until he mixes them, so that their impurity is established with certainty.

It is understood from this that if it is possible to purify one of them with the other, purification is obligatory and there is no need for dry ablution. This is where each of the two vessels contains two qullahs or more: one is added to the other, for the purifying water will purify the impure water once its change has disappeared.

If it is confused with pure water, he performs one ablution using both: one scoop from this vessel and one scoop from that vessel, and he offers one prayer.

His statement, “If it is confused with pure water, he performs one ablution using both: one scoop from this vessel and one scoop from that vessel, and he offers one prayer,” refers to an issue that does not arise according to the view we have deemed correct, since there is no pure water that is not purifying according to the sound view. However, it does arise according to the madhhab, and the meaning of pure water has previously been explained (2).

(1) See al-Insaf, 1:135. (2) See p. 47.

مثاله: رجل عنده إِناءان أحدهما طَهُور، والآخر نجس، وشكَّ أيُّهما الطَّهور؛ فنقول: يجب عليه اجتنابُهما. فإن قال: فماذا أعملُ إِذا أردت الصَّلاة؟ نقول: تيمَّم؛ لأنك غير قادر على استعمال الماء؛ لاشتباه الطَّهور بالنَّجس؛ فيشمله قوله تعالى: ﴿فَلَمْ تَجِدُوا مَاءً فَتَيَمَّمُوا﴾ [المائدة: ٦]. وهل يُشترط للتيمُّم إراقتهما أو خلطهما؟ فيه قولان (١)، ولهذا نفى المؤلِّف اشتراط إِراقتهما أو خلطهما رداً للقول الثاني، وإِلا لما كان لنفيه داعٍ، فقال: «ولا يُشتَرط … إلخ» لردِّ قول من قال: إنه يُشتَرط إِراقتهما، أو خلطهما، وهو قولٌ في المذهب. قالوا: لا يمكن أن يتيَمَّم حتى يُريقَ الماءين؛ ليكون عادماً للماء حقيقة، أو يخلطهما حتى يتحقَّق النَّجاسة. وعُلم من ذلك أنه إذا أمكن تطهيرُ أحدهما بالآخر وجب التطهير، ولا يحتاج إِلى التيمُّم، وذلك إذا كان كلُّ واحد من الإناءين قُلَّتين فأكثر؛ فيُضاف أحدُهما إلى الآخر، فإِن الطَّهور منهما يطهِّر النَّجس إِذا زالَ تغيُّره. وإن اشتَبَه بطَاهِر تَوَضَّأ منهمَا وُضُوءاً واحداً، مِنْ هذا غَرْفَةٌ، ومن هذا غَرفةٌ، وصَلَّى صلاةً واحدةً. قوله: «وإِن اشتَبَه بطَاهر تَوَضّأ منهمَا وُضُوءاً واحداً، مِنْ هذا غَرْفَةٌ، ومن هذا غَرفةٌ، وصَلَّى صلاةً واحدةً»، هذه المسألة لا تَرِدُ على ما صحَّحناه؛ لعدم وجود الطَّاهر غير المطهِّر على القول الصَّحيح، لكن تَرِدُ على المذهب، وسبق بيان الطَّاهر (٢).

(١) انظر: «الإِنصاف» (١/ ١٣٥). (٢) انظر: ص (٤٧).