Ruling on water left over by cats and by smaller roaming animals

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Ruling on water left over by cats and by smaller roaming animals

Is water left over by a cat or a smaller creature pure, or is using it disliked when other water is available?

Hanafi

Water left over by a cat or a smaller creature is pure, but performing wudu with it is disliked when other water is at hand; if none is, one uses it and does not resort to tayammum.

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

Maliki

Water left over by a cat or a smaller creature is tahur and removes hadath without any dislike, since such animals are among those that go about among us.

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

Shāfiʿī

Water left over by a cat or a smaller creature such as a mouse is pure and purifying and removes hadath without dislike, on the strength of the hadith about the cat.

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

Hanbali

Water left over by a cat or a smaller creature is pure and purifying, removes hadath, and its use is not disliked.

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