Does the foot of a person, wet from walking through puddles that have dried after dogs drank from them, become impure?
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The general rule is that puddles in the streets are excused, even if some of them are ritually impure (najis), as long as the impurity itself is not directly touched. A wet foot does not become impure by stepping on dry puddles unless one is certain of stepping on the impurity itself. Similarly, dogs drinking from a pool of water does not render it impure if its volume reaches two qullahs (approximately 160.5 liters).
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