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The ruling on the one performing tamattu' if menstruation begins after entering ihram

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: A woman performed Hajj as a mutamatti'ah, intending to perform tamattu'. Then, after she entered ihram from the miqat, her period started. Is she allowed to switch from tamattu' to qiran, or what should she do?

Answer:
She remains in her current state, and when she becomes pure, she completes her Hajj, because most of the acts of Hajj do not require ritual purity. Do what the pilgrim does. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to 'A'ishah when she menstruated:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that A'isha said, "I came to Makka at the time of my period so I did not do tawaf of the House or go between Safa and Marwa. I complained to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said, 'Do what the people doing hajj do except do not do tawaf of the House and go between Safa and Marwa until you are pure.' " Malik said, concerning a woman who entered ihram for umra at the time of hajj, and she arrived in Makka during her period and so could not do tawaf of the House, "When she fears that the time (for hajj) is getting close, she gets into ihram for the hajj and sacrifices an animal. She is like someone who combines the hajj and the umra. One tawaf is enough for her. If a women starts her period after she has already done tawaf of the House and prayed, she does say between Safa and Marwa and stops at Arafa and Muzdalifa and stones the jamras but she does not do the tawaf al-ifada until she is pure and has finished her menses."افعلي ما يفعل الحاج غير الا تطوفي بالبيت
Muwatta Malik 20:236
Only the tawaf is what she does not do. As for standing at 'Arafah, staying overnight at Muzdalifah, staying overnight in Mina, and stoning the pillars, these do not require ritual purity. A menstruating woman performs them, except for the tawaf of the Ka'bah, which she postpones. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 59 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/معى السمود/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (49:19)

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