Abu Hanifa: gives weight to pre-existing janabah and also restricts the exceptional rule for a minor.
The two companions: apply the battlefield martyr’s general no-washing exception to both the junub and the child.
The underlying issue is how a special exception interacts with the general obligation to wash the dead and, for the junub, the pre-existing state.
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Newborn Funeral Rulings and the Chapter on Martyrs
Abu Hanifa: gives weight to pre-existing janabah and also restricts the exceptional rule for a minor.
The two companions: apply the battlefield martyr’s general no-washing exception to both the junub and the child.
The underlying issue is how a special exception interacts with the general obligation to wash the dead and, for the junub, the pre-existing state.