The Quantity Of Water That Does Not Become Unclean
Darussalam · Volume 1
(1) The Chapters OfPurification And ItsSunnahSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 518 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 172
Source no. 518 · Volume 2 · Page 90
Sahih
صحيح، المشكاة (٤٧٧) ، الإرواء (٢٣) ، صحيح أبي داود (٥٦ و ٥٧) ، التعليق على التنكيل (٢ / ٥)
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518. It was narrated from ‘Ubaidullâh bin ‘Abdullâh bin ‘Umar that his father said: “The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: ‘If the water is the amount of two or three Qullah, nothing can make it impure (Najis).”’ (Sahih) Another chain with similar wording.
518 - حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا كَانَ الْمَاءُ قُلَّتَيْنِ، أَوْ ثَلَاثًا، لَمْ يُنَجِّسْهُ شَيْءٌ» ، قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَاتِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ، وَأَبُو سَلَمَةَ، وَابْنُ عَائِشَةَ الْقُرَشِيُّ، قَالُوا: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ
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[1] A Qullah is a large water container whose size the scholars differ over, from five to fifty waterskins. Tirmidhi said (no. 67): “And they say, it is approximately fifty Qirbah (water skins).” Khattabi said (Ma’alamus-Sunan: 1:35): “The scholars have stated the size of two Qullah is five Qirbah.” See Ahmad Shâkir’s comments on Jami’ At-Tirmidhi.
Other Ahādīth confirm that the original limit is two Qullah. If the size of water is less than this, then anything impure falling into it shall turn the water impure, regardless of whether its smell, taste or color remains unchanged. But water in a greater quantity than this shall only be considered impure if the impurity has either changed its color, or smell, or taste.