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Sunan Abi Dawud 66 — Pure Water and Well of Budaah
What Has Been Narrated Concering The Well Of Buda'ah
Water Is Pure Hadith: The Well of Budaah
Sunan Abi Dawud : 66
Sunan Abi DawudHadith Number 66
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ، وَالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الأَنْبَارِيُّ، قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَتَوَضَّأُ مِنْ بِئْرِ بُضَاعَةَ وَهِيَ بِئْرٌ يُطْرَحُ فِيهَا الْحِيَضُ وَلَحْمُ الْكِلاَبِ وَالنَّتْنُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْمَاءُ طَهُورٌ لاَ يُنَجِّسُهُ شَىْءٌ " . قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ رَافِعٍ .
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri Narrated from:
The people asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Can we perform ablution out of the well of Buda'ah, which is a well into which menstrual clothes, dead dogs and stinking things were thrown? He replied: Water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
[1] Meaning that items such as these were discarded near it, and some of its source water may have encountered them, not that they were actually thrown into the well.Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 66In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 66English translation : Book 1, Hadith 66
Summary of Sunan Abi Dawud Hadith 66
This water is pure hadith answers a concern about making ablution from the well of Budaah. The people described the well as a place where menstrual clothes, dead dogs, and foul things were thrown. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم replied, “Water is pure and is not defiled by anything.” The explanation should stay with that answer. The hadith teaches that water has a pure status in the case being asked about. It does not ask the reader to ignore cleanliness. Rather, it reports the Prophet’s answer to a specific question about whether ablution could be made from that well. The key phrase is simple: water is pure.
What we learn from this hadith
- People asked whether they could perform ablution from the well of Budaah.
- The concern was about things thrown into the well.
- The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم answered that water is pure.
- The teaching is tied to the question asked in the narration.
