What is the ruling when an animal of unknown status dies in water?
Chapter on what purification is achieved with regarding water
Al-Mughni
Book of Purification
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If an animal of unknown status dies in the water, the water remains pure because the original state is purity, and impurity is only a matter of doubt; certainty is not abandoned for doubt. The same ruling applies if an animal whose residual drink (su'r) is questionable in purity drinks from the water.