Ghusl with the water of a bathhouse

Mansur said: I asked Ibrahim: "May I take a ritual bath (ghusl) with the water of the bathhouse?" He said: "Yes; if you take it from one side, it suffices you."

Al-Sha'bi said: If I need to take a bath, I would bathe with it (the bathhouse water).

Husayn said: I asked Ikrimah: "Magians and people in a state of janabah also bathe in the bathhouse?" He said: "Water is purifying; nothing makes it impure."

Hisham said: The water of the bathhouse suffices for a person in a state of major ritual impurity (junub).

Mughirah said: When Ibrahim entered the bathhouse, then on leaving he would take a bath under the water spout, and then come out.

Al-Sha'bi would enter the bathhouse and take a bath in it, and then he would say: If I had to take a bath from it, I would not enter it.

Alqamah and al-Aswad used to take a bath with the water of the bathhouse, and they would not follow it with another bath afterwards.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abza (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The bathhouse is made so that purity may be attained by it, not so that one needs to purify oneself after using it.

The same is reported through another chain.

Yahya bin Ubayd said: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) about the water of the bathhouse, and he said: Water does not become ritually impure.

Abu Farwah said: I asked al-Sha'bi: Will you take a bath with the water of the bathhouse when you are in a state of major ritual impurity? He said: Yes, and then I will count it as my most thorough bath. I said: Will you take a bath again after coming out of the bathhouse? He said: Then why would I enter it?

Al-Hasan used to consider it disliked to take a bath with the water of the bathhouse.

Sayyar said: I saw al-Sha'bi come out of the bathhouse and walk through the water of the bathhouse, but he did not wash his feet. I asked him the reason for this, and he said: I am a man whom people look at.