She said: "I am menstruating." He replied: "Your menstruation is not in your hand" (39).
The second type: that whose meat is eaten. Abu Bakr ibn al-Mundhir said: The scholars are in consensus that the leftover water (su'r) of that whose meat is eaten is permissible to drink and to use for ablution (wudu).
If it is a jallalah (an animal that consumes filth), the Qadi mentioned two narrations regarding it (40): one is that it is impure (najis), and the second is that it is pure. Thus, this belongs to the second type of the first category, regarding which there is disagreement.
The third type: the cat and smaller animals in size, such as the mouse and the weasel (41). The leftover water of this and similar pests (hasharat) of the earth is pure; it is permissible to drink and to perform ablution with it, and it is not disliked. This is the opinion of the majority of scholars among the Companions, the Successors, the people of Madinah, Syria, and Kufah, and the proponents of logic (ashab al-ra'y), except for Abu Hanifah, for he disliked performing ablution with the cat's leftover water, though if one did so, it would suffice. It was narrated (42) from Ibn 'Umar that he disliked it, as did Yahya al-Ansari and Ibn Abi Layla.
Abu Hurayrah said: It should be washed once or twice. Ibn al-Musayyib (43) also held this view.
(39) Narrated by Muslim in: "Chapter on the Permissibility of a Menstruating Woman Washing Her Husband's Head," etc., from the Book of Menstruation. Sahih Muslim 1/245. And by Abu Dawud, in: "Chapter on the Menstruating Woman Taking Something from the Mosque," from the Book of Purification. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/60. And by al-Tirmidhi, in: "Chapter on What Was Narrated Concerning the Menstruating Woman Taking Something from the Mosque," from the Chapters on Purification. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 1/216. And by al-Nasa'i, in: "Chapter on the Service of a Menstruating Woman," from the Book of Purification, and in: "Chapter on the Service of a Menstruating Woman," from the Book of Menstruation. Al-Mujtaba 1/120, 158. And by Ibn Majah, in: "Chapter on the Menstruating Woman," from the Book of Purification. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/207. And by al-Darimi, in: "Chapter on the Menstruating Woman Spreading the Prayer Mat," and in: "Chapter on the Menstruating Woman Combing Her Husband's Hair," from the Book of Wudu. Sunan al-Darimi 1/197, 247. And by Imam Ahmad in: The Musnad 2/70, 6/45, 101, 106, 110, 112, 114, 173, 179, 214, 229, 245. (40) Omitted from M. (41) Ibn 'irs, with a kasra: a small creature resembling a mouse. (42) In M: "It has been narrated." (43) In M: "al-Mundhir," while the correct version is in the original (al-asl) and A.
