The extent of the well’s private domain from each side
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is the well’s private domain forty cubits from each side, or ten from each side so that the total is forty?
Answer:
From all its sides, forty from all its sides. Even if it were forty or fifty, I think that if it is an old well, its private domain is fifty cubits from each side, and if it is a new one, it is twenty-five cubits from each side, in the case of open land. As for if it is surrounded by properties, it has no private domain from those properties, but this is if it is in open land. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, is the well’s private domain forty cubits from each side, or ten from each side so that the total is forty?
Answer:
From all its sides, forty from all its sides. Even if it were forty or fifty, I think that if it is an old well, its private domain is fifty cubits from each side, and if it is a new one, it is twenty-five cubits from each side, in the case of open land. As for if it is surrounded by properties, it has no private domain from those properties, but this is if it is in open land. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب إحياء الموات — islamhouse.com (38:19)
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