Question 27) - You have mentioned that well-water Is pure. It is possible that impurity falls in it. How then is it purified?

A: As follows:

1. If an impurity falls in a well or a human, dog, sheep, or what resembles these in body dies in the well, then all the water is removed. The well is the purified.

2. If a dove, chicken, cat or what resembles them dies in the well, it is Wajib to remove 40 buckets of water and 50 is Mustahab.

3. If a rat, sparrow or what resembles them dies in the well; it is Wajib to remove 20 buckets of water and 30 is Mustahab.

4. This is when the corpse did not puff or disintegrate. If it puffed or disintegrated, it is Wajib to remove aft the water, whether the animal was big or small.

~ al-Quduri ~