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Confusion About Hadith – Sunan Abi Dawud 67
Ghamidi Sahab often says that the purpose of the deen is purification, spiritual, physical and mental. This hadith does not make sense to me.
The explanations online are inadequate.
Narrated AbuSa’id al-Khudri:
“I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ): Water is brought for you from the well of Buda’ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: Verily water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
Abu Dawud said I heard Qutaibah b. Sa’id say: I asked the person in charge of the well of Bud’ah about the depth of the well. He replied: At most the water reaches pubes. Then I asked: Where does it reach when its level goes down ? He replied: Below the private part of the body.
Abu Dawud said: I measured the breadth of the well of Buda’ah with my sheet which I stretched over it. I then measured it with the hand. It measured six cubits in breadth. I then asked the man who opened the door of garden for me and admitted me to it: Has the condition of this well changed from what it had originally been in the past ? He replied: No. I saw the color of water in this well had changed”
Grade: Sahih (Al-Albani)
Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 67
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 67
English translation : Book 1, Hadith 67
Online link: https://sunnah.com/abudawud:67
Even if the Prophet (PBUH) was discussing a problem of Fiqh, i.e. what amount of water is considered clean if some nijasah falls into it … this doesn’t seem to satisfy common intellect. This was not flowing water and the latter part of the hadith makes it clear that the quantity of water was not great.
Please help
May Allah (SWT) bless you for your efforts!
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Confusion About Hadith – Sunan Abi Dawud 67
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According to the commentators, the well has running water. Some wells have running water. Otherwise, the well too has to be cleaned if some filth falls into it which changes its color or odor.
In the last of this narrator shows his doubt by saying that the color of the water had changed, which implies that he doubted the purity of the water.
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