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6.0 MENSTRUAL BLEEDING
6.1 Definitions
The minimum menstrual bleeding is three days and nights, ans [so] anything which falls short of that is not menstrual blood (hayd) but chronic bleeding (istihadah).
The maximum menstrual bleeding is ten days and nights, and [so] anythign which exceeds that is istihadah.
That red, yellow and murky [discharge] which a woman sees in the days of menstrual bleeding is menstrual discharge, [and her period persists] until she sees pure white [liquid].
6.2 What is prohibited with hayd and nifas
- Hayd waives salah from a woman, and prohibits fasting for her.
She makes up the fasting [later], but does not make up the salah.
- She may not enter a mosque,
- Nor circumambulate the House [i.e. the Ka`bah]
- Nor may her husband approach her [for intercourse]
A menstruating woman and one in janabah :
- May not: recite the Qur'an
- [They, as well as] one with hadath may not touch a mushaf [i.e Qur'an], unless they hold it with its case.
6.3 Completion of purity
- If the menstrual bleeding ceases in less than ten days, it is not permissible [for her husband] to have intercourse with her until
- she performs ghusl
- or the complete time of a salah passes her by.
- If her bleeding ceases after ten days, it is permissible [but not recommended] to have intercourse with her before [she performs] ghusl.
- If purity interrupts two bleedings within the period of menstruation, it is [treated] as [continuously] flowing blood.
- The minimum period of purity is fifteen days, and there is no limit for its maximum.
6.4 Chronic Bleeding (Istihadah)
- The blood of istihadah is that which a woman sees for less than three days or more than ten days [in menstruation, or more than forty days after child-birth].
- Its verdict is [the same as] the verdict of a perpetual nosebleed; it does not prevent fasting, nor salah, nor intercourse.
- If bleeding exceeds ten days, and a woman has a known cycle, it is referred back to the days of her cycle, and whatever exceeds that is considered istihadah. If she entered maturity in the state of istihadah then her menstrual bleeding is [considered to be] ten days of every month, and the remainder is istihadah.
The woman with istihadah, and [similarly] someone with a constant drip of urine, or a perpetual nose-bleed, or a wound which does not stop [bleeding], performs wudu' for the time of each salah, and then they [may] perform with that wudu' whatever they wish of fard and nafl. Then, when the time exits, their wudu' is invalidated, and they must repeat the wudu' for another salah.
6.5 Post-Natal Bleeding (Nifas)
- Nifas is the blood which exits following child-birth. The blood which a pregnant woman sees, and that which a woman sees during child-birth but before the emergence of the child is istihadah.
- There is no limit for the minimum [duration] of nifas, but is maximum is forty days. Whatever exceeds that is istihadah. If bleeding exceeds the forty [days], and this woman had given birth before and has a regular [cycle] in post-natal bleeding, it is referred to the days of her regular [cycle]. But, if she does not have a regular [cycle] then her initial nifas is forty days.
- Whoever gives borth to two children in one pregnancy, her nifas is that blood which exits after the first child....
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