7. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa and abu Dawud all from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Muhammad ibn abu Hamzah from a man who has said the following:

“I once asked abu ’Abd Allah , about a man who has had sexual relation after which he stands in the rain until water flows over his body. ‘Is this sufficient for Ghusl (bath)? He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, it is sufficient.’”