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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A Woman's Menstruation on the Eighth Day During Hajj

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Question:
Umm Sa'd says: If a woman is determined to perform Hajj, if Allah wills, but her period comes during her performance of the obligatory Hajj on the eighth day, what should she do?

Answer:
If she is in that state, she enters ihram in any case. She enters ihram whether she is in a state of purity or menstruating. She enters ihram and does what the pilgrim does, except for the tawaf (circumambulation) of the House. She does not perform tawaf until she is purified. The saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to Aisha 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
Muwatta Malik 20:236
except that
do not perform Tawaf of the Ka`ba till you get clean (from your menses)تطوفي بالبيت حتى تطهري
Sahih al-Bukhari 1650
. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (143) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1437-11-21] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (9:22)

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