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.
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.