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Project Professional Notes47Issue #6: Dung and Urine of Animals:Agreement: With the exception of the urine of a suckling male infant, the scholars are in agreementconcerning the impurity (najasah) of urine and excrement of humans. All the scholars agree that humanfeces are najis.Disagreement: Concerning the purity or impurity of Dung and Urine of Animals, the scholars are divided intheir opinions on this issue into three groups:First Opinion: All urine and dung of animals are najis. (AshShaafi’ee, Abu Haanifa)Second Opinion: Any animal that is eatable, its dung and urine are not najis. Thus fertilizer of horse orcow manure is okay. (Ahmed, Maalik).Third Opinion: All dung and urine are pure, not najis (Dhaahiri)Proofs used by the Scholars on this Issue:Proof Used by Scholars Who supported the First Opinion:Ibn Mas’ud () related that the Messenger of Allah () went to answer the call of nature. He asked‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud to bring three stones. ‘Abdullah said, “I could not find three stones, so I foundtwo stones and animal dung and brought them to him. He took the two stones and threw away the dungsaying ‘It is impure.’” [alBukhari]Note: Throwing away the dung shows that it is najis. The Prophet () discarded it indicating that animal dungis impure.Proof Used by Scholars Who Supported the Second Opinion:Anas () reported that some people came from ‘Akl or ‘Areenah and avoided Madinah (i.e. they did not wantto stay in Madinah because they were suffering from a fever).The Prophet () ordered them to drink the urine and milk of milch-camels (for treatment of their fever). Theydid that, and when they got better, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet () and stole the sheep. This newsreached the Prophet () at the beginning of the day, and he sent people in pursuit of them. At mid-day, theywere brought to him and he commanded that their hands and feet should be cut off and their eyes put out, thenthey were left in al-Harrah begging for water, but no one gave them water. (The punishment subjected upon thekillers was the same as what they did to the shepherd who was a brother of Abu Dharr.)Note: They used this as proof by saying that the prophet told them drink the urine, if it was najis he wouldn’thave told them to drink it.