Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The purification of the utensil belonging to any one of you, after it has been licked by a dog, consists of washing it seven times, using sand in the first instance. Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has been narrated by Abu Ayyub and Habib bin al-Shahid on the authority of Muhammad.

A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators. But this version has been narrated as a statement of Abu Hurairah himself and not attributed to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . The version has the addition of the words: "If the cat licks (a utensil), it should be washed once. "

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: When a dog licks a (thing contained in a) utensil you must wash it seven times, using earth (sand) for the seventh time. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by another chain of narrators in which there is no mention of earth.

Narrated Ibn Mughaffal: The Messenger of Allaah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ordered the killing of the dogs, and then said: Why are they (people) after them (dogs)? and then granted permission (to keep) for hunting and for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Mughaffal narrated in a similar way.

Narrated Abu Qatadah: Kabshah, daughter of Kab ibn Malik and wife of Ibn Abu Qatadah, reported: Abu Qatadah visited (me) and I poured out water for him for ablution. A cat came and drank some of it and he tilted the vessel for it until it drank some of it. Kabshah said: He saw me looking at him; he asked me: Are you surprised, my niece? I said: Yes. He then reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: It is not unclean; it is one of those (males or females) who go round among you.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: Dawud ibn Salih ibn Dinar at-Tammar quoted his mother as saying that her mistress sent her with some pudding (harisah) to Aishah who was offering prayer. She made a sign to me to place it down. A cat came and ate some of it, but when Aishah finished her prayer, she ate from the place where the cat had eaten. She stated: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: It is not unclean: it is one of those who go round among you. She added: I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم performing ablution from the water left over by the cat.

Narrated Aishah: I and the Messenger of Allaah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم took a bath from one vessel while we were sexually defiled.

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: My hands and the hands of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم alternated into one vessel while we performed ablution.

Narrated Ibn Umar: The males and females during the time of the Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam) used to perform the ablution from one vessel together. The wordings "from one vessel" occur in the version of Musaddad.

Narrated Abd Allaah bin Umar: We (men) and women during the life-time of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to perform ablution from one vessel. We all put our hands in it.