Touching a Dog and Confining Its Impurity to Its Saliva
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I touched a dog with my hand. Will my hand become ritually impure? What is the ruling in this case, since I heard that the impurity is confined only to the saliva?
The Shaykh:
If the dog is wet and you touch it, your hand or the foot you touch it with becomes ritually impure. However, if the dog is dry, it does not affect what you touch it with; it has no effect because nothing from it, or any moisture, has stuck to you. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Whoever confines the impurity to the saliva is restricting the evidence, because if the saliva is impure, then the rest of the dog’s body is impure. The saliva does not become impure except from the impurity of the body.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I touched a dog with my hand. Will my hand become ritually impure? What is the ruling in this case, since I heard that the impurity is confined only to the saliva?
The Shaykh:
If the dog is wet and you touch it, your hand or the foot you touch it with becomes ritually impure. However, if the dog is dry, it does not affect what you touch it with; it has no effect because nothing from it, or any moisture, has stuck to you. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Whoever confines the impurity to the saliva is restricting the evidence, because if the saliva is impure, then the rest of the dog’s body is impure. The saliva does not become impure except from the impurity of the body.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين [3] — alfawzan.live (42:43)
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