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Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

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What Can and Cannot Be Used for Prostration

833. hadíth

وَ سَأَلَ اَلْحَسَنُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ أَبَا اَلْحَسَنِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: عَنِ اَلْجِصِّ يُوقَدُ عَلَيْهِ بِالْعَذِرَةِ وَ عِظَامِ اَلْمَوْتَى ثُمَّ يُجَصَّصُ بِهِ اَلْمَسْجِدُ أَ يُسْجَدُ عَلَيْهِ فَكَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ إِلَيْهِ بِخَطِّهِ «أَنَّ اَلنَّارَ وَ اَلْمَاءَ قَدْ طَهَّرَاهُ.

Al-Hasan ibn Mahbub asked Imam Abu al-Hasan (a.s) about gypsum (plaster) that was fired using dung and the bones of the dead, and whether it would be permissible to prostrate on it if a mosque was plastered with it. The Imam wrote back in his own handwriting: "Fire and water have purified it”.

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