Malik considers the dog's leftover water pure, while still following the instruction to wash the vessel seven times. He treats this washing as a devotional prescription, not necessarily proof that saliva is impure.
Hanafi reasoning instead connects the washing instruction to saliva's impurity. The dispute therefore concerns the legal rationale for the instruction.
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Su’r: Categories, Purity, and Juristic Differences
Malik considers the dog's leftover water pure, while still following the instruction to wash the vessel seven times. He treats this washing as a devotional prescription, not necessarily proof that saliva is impure.
Hanafi reasoning instead connects the washing instruction to saliva's impurity. The dispute therefore concerns the legal rationale for the instruction.