Is it permissible to plaster a mosque with impure clay?

Chapter on Praying with Impurity and Other Matters

Al-Mughni

Book of Prayer

Book 3 · Issue 1 · Bab 8

Open in Qurani

Primary text

It is disliked (*makruh*) to plaster a mosque with impure clay, to pave it with impure bricks, or to construct it with impure mud bricks (*labin*) or impure kiln-fired bricks (*ajur*). If a worshipper prays while his body or clothes touch the impure ground, his prayer is invalid.