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Is it true that Allah forbade the Earth from drinking blood, despite the fact that the Earth naturally absorbs liquids?

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What was narrated by Wahb ibn Munabbih, that the earth absorbed the blood of the murdered son of Adam, so Adam cursed the earth, and because of that, the earth does not absorb blood after the blood of Abel until the Day of Resurrection, is considered among the Israʼiliyyat (Judeo-Christian traditions).

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