1 – Book of Purification (1)

1 – Water:
“We send down from the sky water that is pure, so that by it We may revive a dead land and give it as drink to many cattle and humans of Our creation.” [al-Furqan: 48-49]

The purifying nature of seawater

The purifying nature of water in which someone has washed:
Jabir narrated: “The Messenger of Allah came to visit me while I was ill and unconscious. He performed ablution, then poured the leftover water over me, and I regained consciousness.” (al-Darimi: 1/187) (agreed upon)

In the report of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah: “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ spat, it fell into the palm of a man who would then rub it over his face and skin; and when he performed ablution they were on the verge of fighting over the water that remained from his ablution.” (Bukhari, Ahmad). Similar reports are related from a number of Companions.

Hudhayfah narrated: “A Muslim is never defiled.” (Bukhari, Muslim)

That narration also mentions that he used to bathe with the water left over by Maymuna. (Muslim)

Ibn ‘Abbas reported: “One of the Prophet’s wives bathed in a large basin. The Messenger of Allah wished to perform ablution from it, so she said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I was in a state of janabah (major ritual impurity).’ He replied, ‘Water itself does not become janabah.’” Authentic. Ibn Taymiyyah adopted this view in al-Ikhtiyārāt and in Majmū‘at al-Rasā’il (2/217). (Ahmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasa’i, al-Tirmidhī: authentic; also Ibn Mājah, Musaddad, Qutaibah, and al-Khuzaymah).

The prohibition in this regard is one of disapproval rather than absolute forbiddance: “None of you should bathe in stagnant water when he is in a state of janabah.” (Muslim) — because that is deemed repulsive. The same ruling applies to urinating in such water, and that is even more objectionable.