Ruling on tahur water altered by an adjacent substance that does not blend

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Ruling on tahur water altered by an adjacent substance that does not blend

Does water altered by an adjacent substance such as fat, oil, or wax still remove hadath?

Hanafi

Ablution is valid with water altered by an adjacent substance such as fat, oil, or wax, since change by mere proximity does not strip it of being absolute water.

Reference: Al-Hidāyah — Radd al-Muḥtār — Marāqī al-Falāḥ

Maliki

Purification is valid with water altered by an adjacent substance such as fat, oil, or wax; it stays tahur, removing hadath and impurity.

Reference: Al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr — Ḥāshiyat al-Dasūqī — Minaḥ al-Jalīl

Shāfiʿī

Hadath and najasah may be removed with water altered by an adjacent substance such as fat or oil, because the change comes from proximity, not from blending.

Reference: Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn — Al-Majmūʿ — Mughnī al-Muḥtāj

Hanbali

Purifying with water altered by an adjacent substance such as fat, oil, or wax is disliked, yet it validly removes hadath because it is still called absolute water.

Reference: Zād al-Mustaqniʿ — Kashshāf al-Qināʿ — Al-Inṣāf