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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on the cessation of post-natal bleeding and its subsequent return?

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Question:
A woman entered Ramadan while experiencing post-natal bleeding. After twenty-seven days of her post-natal bleeding, she became pure, performed the full ritual bath, and then fasted. Seven days before the end of Ramadan, blood appeared and continued with her for six days. Is this considered a return of post-natal bleeding or menstruation, since her monthly cycle is approximately six days? No, by Allah, it does not mean that.

Answer:
She must perform the full ritual bath when purity is present. It is obligatory for her to perform the full ritual bath when purity is present, even if she is among those who estimate her period to be ten or twenty days.
Because there is no fixed limit for the minimum duration of post-natal bleeding. It may be short or it may be long.
So if she becomes pure after ten days, or twenty days, or ten and twenty, or twenty-seven days, she performs the full ritual bath, prays, fasts, and it becomes permissible for her husband. If the blood returns to her within the same forty days.
Then she sits and does not pray or fast, because if the bleeding returns to her until she reaches forty days, then when she completes the forty days and the bleeding stops, even if she has a nosebleed, and the cessation of bleeding, prayer, and fasting is established for her, and it becomes permissible for her husband, because the limit is forty days, and what comes after that is irregular non-menstrual bleeding, which does not prevent prayer, fasting, or marital relations. She must act as a woman with irregular non-menstrual bleeding does: she prays after the time enters, cleans herself after relieving herself, and performs the ablution for each prayer time. She may combine the two prayers because she is in a state similar to illness. But she does not pray except with a fresh ablution.
Then when the time enters, she cleans herself and performs the ablution for each prayer. If she does not have irregular non-menstrual bleeding, she performs the ablution for each prayer time. And she prays after that, even if she has bleeding from below, she prays according to her condition. And if she combines the prayers between the long prayer and the afternoon, and the sunset and the night prayer, there is a report in that regarding the excess. The point is that her purity during the forty days is valid. She performs the full ritual bath, prays, fasts, and it becomes permissible for her husband.
So if the forty days return to her in that manner, she does not pray or fast during the forty days. Very good, with the majority. It is not menstruation. It is post-natal bleeding. Within the forty days.
Then if it appears before forty days, praise be to Allah, she performs the full ritual bath and prays. And if it remains until forty days, she also performs the full ritual bath, even if she performs the full ritual bath and prays, because the forty days have not passed regarding prayer, so she performs the full ritual bath, prays, and fasts, even if it continues with her, but she does not perform the ablution except at the time of each prayer. When the time enters, she cleans herself and performs the ablution at the time of each prayer. This is how it came in the hadith of the woman with irregular non-menstrual bleeding, and this.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 096 ما حكم انقطاع دم النفاس ثم ظهوره مرة أخرى؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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