Anything which dies and doesn’t have a following
Nafs and is a offspring of something pure, is pure [end of text from
Zaad al-Mutaqni’].
Al-Uthaymeen explains that a ‘Nafs’
refers to blood and ‘produced’ refers to it bleeding, if injured or killed.
Therefore, anything that is an offspring of
such a being, is pure.
But this is on two conditions:
1) that the being doesn’t have flowing blood
2) that the being is an offspring of something
pure in origin
Then they are not impure in neither life nor
death.
For example, cockroaches and other insects that
don’t have blood within them. If they were to fall into water, then the water wouldn’t
become impure.
But if a lizard was to fall into water, then
Imam Ahmad regarded lizards as animals which have flowing blood within them,
thus if it dies it takes the ruling as carryon (Maytah), this is similar
to mice. When these animals die, they become impure.
Thus, if it is born from something impure then
the offspring is also impure, but this is assuming that entities don’t change
due to Istihaalah (the process of changing).
If we were to say that some entities become
pure due to Istihaalah, then in this case its possible that something
which may be impure may become pure once dying. Based on this opinion, the
second condition above is not necessarily binding.
For example, threadworms (which come from feces) is
impure in the Madhab – as it’s an offspring of something Najis – whereas
others said its not impure.
ash-Sharh al-Mumti, 449-450
And Allah knows best
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