I don't know how to say the things I am thinking without some people finding it offensive, so let this serve as a trigger warning. I am not trying to offend anyone.
If hygiene is the issue, then what are we to make of the fly-dunking hadith? I did search for discussion of this hadith on this board and couldn't find anything, so please forgive me if it's been discussed already. Anyway, the hadith is:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said "If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease." -
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 54 Hadith 537
Why would Muhammad be concerned with our butts being clean, and then tell us to dunk a filthy insect into our drinks? Flies feed on sewage, rotting animals and open sores. But unless a person is sick, their own feces pose relatively little risk to them.
So is that a reliable hadith? If so, how is the butt-cleaning hadith versus the fly dunking hadith problem handled?