perform prayer, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to pray in sheep folds. This is agreed upon (17). He said: "Pray in sheep folds." This is agreed upon (18). This is a consensus, as Ibn al-Mundhir mentioned. Abu Musa prayed in a place where there was sheep dung. It was said to him: "If you had moved forward to here?" He replied: "This and that are the same." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and his companions did not have mats or prayer rugs upon which to pray; they only prayed on the earth, and sheep folds are never free from their dung and urine. This indicates that they were in direct contact with them during their prayers. Furthermore, it is a normal discharge from an animal whose meat is eaten, so it is pure, like milk and bird droppings according to those who accept that. Moreover, if it were impure, the grains trampled by cattle would become impure, as they are not safe from their urine, thus some of it would become impure, and since the impure would mix with the pure, the ruling for the entire amount would be that of the impure.
Section: As for what emerges from places other than the two passages, there are four categories of animals in this regard. The first is the human being, from whom there are two types of discharges: the pure, which is his saliva, tears, sweat, mucus, and phlegm.
= 2/443, 444; and al-Tirmidhi, in: The chapter on what has been reported regarding drinking the urine of camels, from the Chapters on Foods, and in the same chapter, from the Chapters on Medicine. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 8/35, 197. And al-Nasa'i, in: The chapter on the urine of what is eaten as meat, from the Book of Purification; and in: The chapter on the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Almighty: {The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger}, and the chapter on the mention of the difference between those who transmitted the report of Humayd, and the chapter on the mention of the difference between Talhah ibn Musarrif... etc., from the Book of the Prohibition of Blood. Al-Mujtaba 1/129-131, 7/86-92. And Ibn Majah, in: The chapter on whoever wages war and spreads corruption in the land, from the Book of Penalties (Hudud); and in: The chapter on the urine of camels, from the Book of Medicine. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/861, 1158. And Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 3/107, 163, 170, 177, 186, 198, 205, 233, 287, 290. (17) Reported by al-Bukhari, in: The chapter on the urine of camels, beasts, and sheep, and their folds, from the Book of Wudu'; and in: The chapter on whether the graves of the polytheists of the Jahiliyyah are dug up and their place taken as mosques, and the chapter on prayer in sheep folds, from the Book of Prayer. Sahih al-Bukhari 1/68, 117. And Muslim, in: The chapter on the building of the Prophet's Mosque (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), from the Book of Mosques. Sahih Muslim 1/373, 374. It was also reported by Abu Dawud, in: The chapter on building mosques, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/107. And al-Tirmidhi, in: The chapter on what has been reported regarding prayer in sheep folds and camel resting places, from the Chapters on Prayer. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 2/146. And al-Nasa'i, in: The chapter on digging up graves and taking their land as a mosque, from the Book of Mosques. Al-Mujtaba 2/32. And Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 3/123, 131, 194, 212, 244. (18) Previously mentioned on page 469. (19) In the original: "mutakhallal".
