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1798. Ibn 'Abbās narrated from Maimūnah that a mouse fell in some cooking fat and died. So the Prophet ﷺ was asked about that and he said: "Remove it (the mouse) and what was around it and then eat it (the fat)." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There is something on this topic from Abū Hurairah.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. This Hadīth has been related from Az-Zuhri, from 'Ubaidullāh, from Ibn 'Abbās, saying: "The Prophet ﷺ was asked" and they did not mention Maimūnah in it. The narration of Ibn 'Abbās from Maimūnah is more correct. Ma'mar reported similar from Az-Zuhri, from Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ. But this Hadīth is not preserved. [He said:] I heard Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl saying: "The Hadīth of Ma'mar from Az-Zuhri, from Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ" – [and he mentioned in it: 'That he was asked about it, so he said: "When it (the cooking fat) is solid then remove it (the mouse) and what was around it. And when it is liquid then do not use it."'] This is a mistake. [Ma'mar made a mistake with it. And he said:] What is correct is the narration of Az-Zuhri from 'Ubaidullāh, from Ibn 'Abbās, from Maimūnah."
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If the fat (or oil) is solid, then you can determine what is around the dead mouse. Therefore, the entire fat shall not be made impure. If, on the contrary, the cooking fat is in liquid form, there is no determining what particular part is around it, and the mouse might have floated all around. As such the entire fat shall become impure.
