What is the ruling on a small amount of defecation (spotting) during bathing?
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Feces are a severe impurity from which there is no pardon according to most scholars. The Hanafis, however, hold that a dirham's worth is pardoned, which is equivalent to the weight of a mithqal for thick impurities. Its discharge during (ritual bath) does not invalidate the ghusl, and what has been discharged is easy to purify.
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