Ibn ‘Abbas said that a wife of the Prophet washed in a bowl, and when God’s messenger wanted to perform ablution from it she said, “I was defiled, messenger of God.” He replied, “Water does not become defiled.”
Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Darimi has something similar. In Sharh as-sunna it is given from him from Maimuna with the wording in al-Masabih.
‘Ali said, “The Prophet used to come out of the privy, recite the Qur’an to us and eat meat with us, nothing restraining him from the Qur’an but seminal defilement.”
Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transmitted something similar.
We shall mention the tradition of Ibn ‘Abbas in the book on Foods* if God most High wills
*Book XX , Chap. I, section II, 8th tradition; but one would have expected a tradition in section I.
