Is there a report in the Sunnah regarding washing impurity three times?
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The questioner : O our Shaykh, is it established in the Sunnah that it is obligatory to wash 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 whatever number; if we assume it is permissible with one wash, or with 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 of tracking the impurity. However, it is a matter of caution and the predominance of likelihood. Yes, that is the case.
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 whatever number; if we assume it is permissible with one wash, or with 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 of tracking the impurity. However, it is a matter of caution and the predominance of likelihood. Yes, that is the case.
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