it, wiping would not suffice, as it does not for a large amount. Also, because it is difficult to avoid, so it is excused, like blood. Our position is the generality of the saying of the Almighty: {And keep your garments pure} (1). And the saying of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): "Purify yourselves from urine, for the majority of the punishment of the grave is from it" (2). And because it is an impurity the removal of which is not difficult, so its removal is obligatory, like a large amount. As for blood, it is difficult to avoid, for a person is almost never free from a pimple, an itch, or a boil, and it exits from his nose, mouth, and other areas; thus it is more difficult to avoid a small amount of it than a large amount, and for this reason a distinction was made in ablution between a small amount and a large amount.
225 - Issue: He said: (Unless it is a small amount of blood or pus of a kind that is not considered excessive.)
Most scholars hold the view that a small amount of blood and pus is excused. Among those from whom this was narrated are: Ibn Abbas, Abu Hurayra, Jabir, Ibn Abi Awfa (1), Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Tawus, Mujahid, 'Urwa, Muhammad ibn Kunasa (2), al-Nakha'i, Qatada, al-Awza'i, al-Shafi'i [in one of his two opinions] (3), and the People of Opinion. And Ibn Umar used to
= Muslim 1/487. Abu Dawud, in: The Chapter on supererogatory prayer on a mount and Witr, from the Book of Travel. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/279. Al-Nasa'i, in: The Chapter on prayer on a donkey, from the Book of Mosques. Al-Mujtaba 2/47. Imam Malik, in: The Chapter on supererogatory prayer during travel by day and prayer on a mount, from the Book of Travel. Al-Muwatta 1/151. And Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 2/7, 49, 57, 83, 128; 3/495.
(1) Surah al-Muddaththir: 4. (2) Al-Suyuti mentioned in Al-Jami' al-Kabir 1/482 that al-Daraqutni recorded it from Qatada from Anas from al-Hasan as a mursal report, and that Abd al-Hamid ibn Humayd recorded it from Ibn Abbas. It is found in al-Daraqutni, in: The Chapter on the impurity of urine and the command to avoid it, from the Book of Purification. Sunan al-Daraqutni 1/127. (1) His biography was previously mentioned in Part One, page 248. (2) In the copies: "Ibn Kinana" is a corruption. He will be mentioned in the second chapter of this issue. He is Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-A'la al-Asadi, known as Ibn Kunasa. He is truthful (saduq), reliable (thiqa), and sound in hadith. He died in the year 209 AH. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/259, 260. (3) Omitted from: The original.
