عضو (جسم کا حصہ)

العُضْو

In the lexicon, udw is any bone surrounded by flesh, of a person or an animal; its root sense is cutting and separating, and it refers to a distinct part of the body ¹. In purity, the duty of washing attaches to what remains of an amputated limb: if the cut is above the elbow or ankle, washing of what is cut off falls away; the Malikis do not wash the stump of an elbow ². The jurists agree that an extra limb growing in the place of washing must be washed; they differ when it grows elsewhere ^{2 3}. A limb separated from a living person is buried without washing or prayer; for a dead person's separated part, the Hanafis and Malikis wash and pray over it only where it is more than half the body, while the Shafi'is and the main Hanbali view pray over any part of a dead Muslim whose death is known ^{3 4}. A limb cut from a living animal is carrion, except fish and locusts; a human limb is subject to retaliation when deliberately injured where it can be matched, and otherwise to blood-money or an assessed award ⁴.