Fatwa ID: 07329

 

 

Answered by: Maulana Ubaidur Rahman

Question:

 

Just realized that I used a brush from a hog bristle in the past, what should I do?

 

When I do a project I use paints and brushes that I used when I was a child (11 years old). When I took another my old brush that I hadn’t used it for my project, & I just know/realised that one brush (hadn’t used it for my project) It’s from Hog/boar bristle).

 

In the past, The brush that from boar bristle is in contact with my old paint and because paint is wet, the hog bristle brush make the paint impure/najis and the najis transfers into my brush that not from hog bristle and also transfer the najis into my hand and then transfer to my paint/paint place in the past. Yesteday, I used my paint for coloring shredded paper and I also use the paint with blender (before I took my old brush that from hog bristle). Is my old paints, brushes (not from hog bristle), blender, bed, clothes najis?

 

Should I purify my floor, clothes, bed, blender, etc that stained with the paint? Should I throw my brush that not from hog bristle because in the past, in contact with my brush that from hog bristle? Or I just need throw my brush that from hog bristle? is my shredded paper najis? JazakAllah

 

 

 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

Answer:

 

Firstly it is important to be sure and confident that there was impurity which transferred from the hog bristle brush to the normal brush. And that it made contact with your old paint brush, substantial enough that it mixed with the impurities from the hog bristle brush thoroughly without any doubt present. If both brushes were dry, then there would be no transfer of impurity as dry substances and materials do not carry across. If the materials were wet, then the impurities would carry across by effect of them both being wet.

 

That which was stained with the paint which is impure need to be purified, but because of the lack of certainty in these areas being unclean, they should be purified as a precautionary measure and not as a direct result of the possibility of them being impure. To alleviate and remove the impurity from the old paint brush which may possibly have come into contact with the boar bristle, you can wash it thoroughly to remove the impurity with the wetness, but it would be best to discard it.

 

Whatever is certain to have made contact with the hog bristle brush needs to be purified. That does include your floor, clothes, bed, blender which has been stained by such a paint. Discard of your brush which is from hog bristle.

 

Anything which is a wet impurity spreads its impurity with anything else which it has come into contact with. Even if the other material is wet or dry.

 

 

³ Kitaab at Tajreed lil Quduri, Page 269, Volume 1, Maktaba tus Shaamila.

 

⁴ Kitaab at Tajreed lil Quduri, Page 269, Volume 1, Maktaba tus Shaamila.

 

⁵ Kiaab ul Awsat fis Sunan Wal Ijmaa’ wal Ikhtilaaf, Page 278, Volume 1, Maktaba tus Shaamila.

 

 

 

 

 

Only Allah (عز و جل) knows best.

Written by Maulana Ubaidur Rahman.

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah.

Darul Ifta Birmingham.