The appearance of drops of blood accompanied by menstrual pain: Is it considered menstruation?

The questioner : Your place is the wall.

The Shaykh : What is the transgression?

The questioner : That her menstruation comes on one day of the month, a day of 'Eid, and then it comes, and a little blood flows, fresh blood, and then it stops. Is it considered days of menstruation while the pain remains? Or is it not?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : I mean, her menstruation flows, then it stops, while the pain of menstruation remains. Is it also considered part of it?

The Shaykh : Perhaps this is the beginning of menstruation, because menstruation may have a beginning of one or two drops before it bursts forth.

The questioner : What should I say?

The Shaykh : So it is nothing.

The questioner : For example, she...

The Shaykh : It is narrated from 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "What is like the nosebleed is not menstruation." And the derivation indicates this, because menstruation is from *hadhar* (flowing) and *adha* (flowing), so the flowing of blood is necessary. Yes, indeed. This is the chapter on menstruation and post-natal bleeding. And if the clot is not formed, then the ruling of post-natal bleeding is not established for the blood accompanying it.