If she uses something to remove it, such as salt or other substances, that is good; because of what Abu Dawud narrated with his chain of transmission from a woman of Ghifar, that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) let her ride behind him on his luggage bag, and she menstruated. She said: So I dismounted, and there was some of my blood on it. He said: "What is the matter with you? Perhaps you are experiencing your period?" I said: Yes. He said: "Then put yourself in order, and take a vessel of water, put salt in it, then wash the blood that has gotten onto the luggage bag (36)."

Al-Khattabi said: There is jurisprudence in this: the permissibility of using salt—which is a foodstuff—in washing and cleansing a garment from blood. Based on this, it is permissible to wash clothes with honey if soap damages them (37), and with vinegar if ink gets on them (38), and to rub them with bran, and to wash hands with it, or with watermelon, fava bean flour, and other things that have cleansing power. And Allah knows best.

Section: If there is wine in a vessel, or similar substances among the impurities that the vessel absorbs, then whenever any other liquid is placed in it, the taste of the impurity appears in it, [or its color, it does not become pure by washing; because washing does not eradicate the particles of impurity] (39) from the body of the vessel, so it does not purify it, like sesame seeds when they become wet with impurity.

Shaykh Abu al-Faraj al-Maqdisi (40) said in "al-Mubhij" (41): Regarding the vessels of wine, some are pitched (coated with pitch), which become pure by washing, because the pitch prevents the impurity from reaching the body of the vessel, and among them is