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Ah yes, I remember the same question being asked before:
http://www.islamicboard.com/general/...on-hadith.html
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Crossman3
A single 'Mudd' is approximately equal to a handful of water( or cupped hand of water).
What is your source for this?
I was under the impression that a madd was approximately 750ml, and a saa' was about 3 litres.
There are some people that have a chain of transmission for this prophetic measurement:
A prophetic mudd (1/4 saa’) in modern volume measurements is .75L (or 750mL), which means that a saa’ is three litres.
[The chain of transmission for this prophetic measurement]
This mudd was measured up to Sh. Yahyaa al-Mudarris' mudd (may Allaah preserve him), which was measured up to the mudd of his shaykh al-'Allaamah Aboo Sa'eed Muhammad 'Abdullaah al-Laknawee (d.1400), which was measured up to his shaykh's mudd... and so on, all the way back to the mudd of Zayd ibn Thaabit (may Allaah be pleased with him) that was in use in al-Andelus and elsewhere all the way to (at least) the 4th century...
Al-'Allaamah al-Laknawee (may Allaah have Mercy on him) - a former teacher at the Haram in Makkah and at Daar al-Hadeeth, an Indian scholar grounded in Tawheed and firm against the people of desires - said about this mudd:
This is the mudd that the Prophet (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) was speaking about when he prayed, "O Allaah! Put blessings in our saa' and our mudd!" This was collected by the two shaykhs (al-Bukhaaree and Muslim). Further, he (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) used to make wudhoo' using this mudd, and he used to take a bath using a saa'.
Source: An-Najm al-Baadee, Shaykh Yahyaa's biography (p.63)
http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2009/09/1...-1-mudd-750ml/
Also, in an Al Kauthar Student Guild course, Fiqh ul Hadith of Tahaarah in Bulugh al Maram, taught by Sh Bilal Ismail, a madd is mentioned as being 700-750ml, with a saa' being 3 litres.
These quantities are perfectly adequate to do wudhu and ghusl, especially when you are short of water. We have plenty of water, so use more and find it hard to do with less.
If you ever go to Masjid al-Haram, and watch when the adhaan is called, some people who have been sitting in the masjid, will do their wudhu with water in a drinking bottle. Watch how people manage to do full wudhu with one bottle of water.
And Allah knows best in all matters.