Is washing three times for impurity established in the Sunnah?
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The questioner : Regarding this same issue, O our Shaykh, does washing three times mean is it established in the Sunnah, or is it obligatory to wash the impurity three times?
The Shaykh : I qualified the answer; I said: if the substance of the impurity is visible.
The questioner : Then it must be removed.
The Shaykh : It must be removed by any number, even if we assume it is removed by a single wash.
The questioner : It is removed.
The Shaykh : It was permissible.
The questioner : Or by seven.
The Shaykh : Or by seven, or so on. But if the impurity is not visible, it is washed three times on the basis of giving precedence to the likelihood, as we said regarding the original issue in terms of tracking the impurity. However, this is on the basis of being scrupulous and the likelihood being dominant.
Yes.
Other than that?
The Shaykh : I qualified the answer; I said: if the substance of the impurity is visible.
The questioner : Then it must be removed.
The Shaykh : It must be removed by any number, even if we assume it is removed by a single wash.
The questioner : It is removed.
The Shaykh : It was permissible.
The questioner : Or by seven.
The Shaykh : Or by seven, or so on. But if the impurity is not visible, it is washed three times on the basis of giving precedence to the likelihood, as we said regarding the original issue in terms of tracking the impurity. However, this is on the basis of being scrupulous and the likelihood being dominant.
Yes.
Other than that?
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