Nadh (sprinkling water)

Nadh, in the lexicon, is wetting or sprinkling with water. It is also the water drawn for crops and the camel used to draw it. ¹ Al-Mardawi defines it as flooding a thing with water even if none drips from it. Imam al-Haramayn defines it as heavy watering that does not reach flowing and dripping. ¹

Sprinkling the private parts and trousers after istinja is recommended by the Hanafis, Shafi'is and Hanbalis, to ward off whisperings. ¹ Boy's urine: washing is required by the Hanafis, Malikis and, in one view, the Shafi'is; sprinkling suffices for a boy who has not eaten food according to the Hanbalis and the sounder Shafi'i view, which requires the water to reach the whole place. ² Land watered by nadh pays half a tenth; higher costs lighten the zakat. ²