The Effect of Blood Flowing from the Nose on the Ablution and the Garment

Question:
This questioner says: Does blood flowing from the nose affect the validity of the ablution or the garment?

Answer:
As for the garment, yes, it affects it if it is a large amount; it is obligatory to wash it. As for the ablution, if it is a small, slight amount, it does not invalidate it. If the blood is slight, it does not invalidate the ablution. However, if it is a large amount, such as a heavy nosebleed or bleeding, the most cautious course for him is to perform the ablution. The most cautious course for him is to perform the ablution, because many scholars hold that it invalidates the ablution if it is a large amount, because it is an excretion from the body, like vomit and like the impure wastes that come out of the body, so it invalidates the ablution. Some of them hold that blood does not invalidate the ablution even if it is a large amount, because when 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was stabbed, he completed the prayer while he was bleeding. The Companions were in battle and jihad, their blood was flowing, and they prayed. But despite this, the most cautious course is for a person to perform the ablution and wash the blood from his body or from his garment. Yes.