A man who steps on a filthy place and afterwards on a cleaner one

The umm walad of Ibrahim bin Abd al-Rahman said: My hem was long and I used to walk dragging it. Sometimes I would pass over a dirty place and then a clean place. I came to Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) and asked her about this, and she said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'The place after it purifies it.'"

A woman of Banu Abd al-Ashhal asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Between me and the mosque there is a dirty place. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked her: Is there a clean place after it? She said: Yes. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: That clean place will purify your clothing.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was asked about a man who is himself pure but passes through a dirty place. She said: He will also pass through a clean place, and the clean place will purify him.

Ibn Abi Dhi'b said: It reached me that Sa'id bin al-Musayyib and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) used to say: One part of the earth purifies another.

Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We did not use to perform ablution on account of passing over a place.

Urwah said: One part of the earth purifies another.

Abu Ja'far said: One part of the earth purifies another.

Alqamah and al-Aswad did not use to perform ablution on account of passing over a dirty place.

Alqamah said: Ablution is not required on account of passing over a dirty place.

Abu Ja'far said: The purification of the earth is its becoming dry.