Ruling on the death in water of creatures without flowing blood
Does water become impure when a creature without flowing blood, such as a fly, bee, or ant, dies in it?
Hanafi
Water is not made impure by the death in it of a creature without flowing blood, such as a fly, a bee, a scorpion, or a gnat.
Reference: Al-Hidāyah — Radd al-Muḥtār — Marāqī al-Falāḥ
Maliki
The carcass of a creature without flowing blood is pure, so water is not made impure by its dying in it, as with flies, bees, and ants.
Reference: Al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr — Ḥāshiyat al-Dasūqī — Minaḥ al-Jalīl
Shāfiʿī
A creature without flowing blood, such as a fly or a bee, does not make water impure by dying in it, unless it was thrown in deliberately or altered the water's qualities.
Reference: Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn — Al-Majmūʿ — Mughnī al-Muḥtāj
Hanbali
Water is not made impure by the death of a creature without flowing blood born of something pure, such as a fly, bee, or ant, because its carcass is pure.
Reference: Zād al-Mustaqniʿ — Kashshāf al-Qināʿ — Al-Inṣāf