Are Clothes Washed by a Washerman Impure?

Question

Are clothes washed by a washerman pure or impure? For washermen do not wash a garment three times. If there is some stain, large or small, on a garment washed by a washerman, should it be purified or not?

Answer

If washermen wash clothes in a large pond, a canal or a river, then those clothes are pure: a garment lying in flowing water or in abundant water also has the ruling of washing it three times. If a fast mark (stain) remains while the substance of the impurity has been washed away, the garment is still pure.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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