personally regarded even the use of such hides with water as reprehensible, although he did not place that restriction upon others. In his view they could neither be sold nor used as a surface for prayer. Other scholars of Medina, however, hold that once the hide of a dead animal has been tanned it becomes fully pure for every purpose—sale, contact with water, and anything else. This is the position adopted by the majority of jurists and by ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb, who relied on the Prophet’s words, “Any hide that has been tanned has become pure.” According to Malik and most of his companions, no distinction is made in this regard between animals whose flesh is eaten and those whose flesh is not: the hide of either becomes pure through tanning.