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Is blood ritually impure? And what are its categories?

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The questioner : The questioner asks: Is blood ritually impure or not? Please explain in detail.

The Shaykh : Yes. This appears to be a good question. If we want to explain in detail, as our brother the questioner requested, we say: Blood that comes out of an animal is ritually impure, whether a little or a lot. For example, blood coming out of a pig, or from a dog, is ritually impure, whether a little or a lot, without distinction, whether it comes out while the animal is alive or dead. Second, blood that comes out of an animal that is pure in life is ritually impure after death. Pay attention: blood coming out of an animal that is pure in life is ritually impure after death. So, if it is in a state of life, it is ritually impure, but a small amount is excused. It is ritually impure, but a small amount is excused. Like what? An animal that is pure in life is ritually impure after death. A camel, right? A camel, sheep are pure in life and ritually impure after death. The evidence for their impurity after death is the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Say, "I do not find within that which was revealed to me [anything] forbidden to one who would eat it unless it be a dead animal or blood spilled out or the flesh of swine - for indeed, it is impureقُل لَّا أَجِدُ فِي مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ مُحَرَّمًا عَلَىٰ طَاعِمٍ يَطْعَمُهُ إِلَّا أَن يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَّسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنزِيرٍ فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌ
[Al-An'am 6:145]
We say this is ritually impure, but a small amount is excused. This will come.
The third is blood that comes out of an animal that is pure in life and after death. What is its ruling? Blood coming out of an animal that is pure in life and after death is pure. It is pure, and it is not obligatory to wash it, except that the majority of scholars exclude human blood from this. Human blood is blood that comes out of something pure in life and after death, and yet, according to the majority of scholars, it is ritually impure, but a small amount is excused. Okay, how many are these? Four. How many? How many categories did I mention? Three. Okay, who can repeat them? Yes, please. Pure in life and after death, what is the ruling of this blood? This is pure, both a lot and a little. It is excluded from this is human blood, which is ritually impure according to most scholars, but a small amount is excused. Okay, this is one. What is that? That means we did not categorize the second category. Yes. It becomes ritually impure. No, it is ritually impure, a little and a lot, but a small amount is excused. Okay, the third. Yes. A lot and a little, and it is not excused. Okay, well done. Hurry up.
The fourth is blood that comes out of the passage, from the human passage, meaning it comes out of the anus or the penis. This is ritually impure, and a small amount is not excused. Because when the women asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about menstrual blood that falls on the garment, he ordered it to be washed without distinction. So, these are four categories of blood. Okay, do we accept this question without a paper, everyone? What is the follow-up to this?
That is new, Shaykh. Okay, for the benefit, we accept it. Okay, we say that blood coming out of a human being from other than the two passages does not break the ablution, whether a little or a lot, such as nosebleed blood and wound blood. Rather, we say that anything coming out of the human body from other than the two passages does not break the ablution, such as vomit, blood, wound fluid, and others. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 12 - 22 - دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام للعام 1408 هـ - الدرس الثاني عشر - الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين — youtube.com (16:55)

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