Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
What is the bare minimum to have a shirt considered tahir after a dog has brushed against it? if I have washed a shirt several times in the regular wash, does this make it taahir, or do I have to wash it 7 times, one time with dirt? AND, what about all the clothes and suitcases this shirt has touched? do they ALL need to be cleaned?
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
In the Hanafi school, the saliva of a dog is filthy, not its skin or hair. [Multaqa] As such, mere ‘brushing’ of a dog against one’s clothes does not render them filthy.
If a dog’s saliva comes onto one’s clothes, one must simply wash the affected area itself, until there is no readily-removable trace of the saliva left (such as by pouring water over the affected area three times, or placing it under a running tap). [Maraqi]
And Allah alone gives success.
Faraz Rabbani.