Is it obligatory to purchase water if it is only available for an unaffordable price?

Chapter on Tayammum

Al-Mughni

Book of Purification

Book 2 · Issue 2 · Bab 10

Open in Qurani

Primary text

If water is only available at a price the person cannot afford, and someone else offers to pay that price, it is not obligatory for the person to accept the water, as doing so incurs a burden or obligation (manna) upon them.