Ants in The Water

You've probably heard its not good to drink water where ants died in it. Some has even forbid it totally and says better throw the water and waste it rather than take the risk of 'mati hati'. Didn't it seemed wasteful to do so? Especially if it is one little ant.

Then I found this and this. An excerpt from the IIU website...

Fiqh 1.7 a: Dead animals that have no running blood

(That is) bees, ants, and so on. They are considered pure. If they fall into some substance and die, the substance will not become impure. Ibn al-Munzhir said, "I do not know of any disagreement concerning the purity of such water save what has been related from ash-Shaf'i. It is well-known that he views them as being impure. Nevertheless, it does not bother him if the object falling into a substance does not alter it (in any way)."

OK! I'm so glad there's a different opinion about the purity of the water. Well... we've heard what people have said about drinking water with ants in it but those people never quote any Quranic verses or Hadith to support their claim. So if there's no direct ruling against something, we'd rely on Ijma' ulama' and it seems the general consensus is the ants did not make the water impure or unfit for consumption.