The Ruling on Continuous Bleeding After Menstruation
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The questioner : A woman asks: I am a girl, and my period came on the eighteenth of Sha'ban. Then I sat for eight days, which are the days I am accustomed to sitting for, and I did not see purity. However, I took a bath. Then the blood continued with me until this day, except that it stopped for one day, then it started flowing again. Knowing that my period is delayed by four to five months, and that I am currently fasting and praying despite the presence of this blood, what is the ruling on my prayer and fasting, and what is your guidance?
The Shaykh : The default ruling for blood that affects a woman is that it is menstruation; this is the default. However, if a cause is found that provokes the blood and it comes from the veins, it is not menstruation. This is based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the woman with irregular bleeding: "That is only blood from a vein." The sign of irregular bleeding is that it continues with the woman for more than the usual duration, meaning she sees blood for fifteen days or more. Such a woman is one with irregular bleeding. The woman with irregular bleeding first returns to her custom. If her custom is six days from the beginning of the month, she sits for six days from the beginning of the month, then takes a bath and prays. If she has no custom, meaning the menstruation continued with her from the first time it came, she acts by differentiation. Differentiation means she looks at the blood: if it is black, it is menstruation; if it is foul-smelling, it is menstruation, meaning it has a bad odor; if it is thick, it is menstruation.
If it is the opposite, being thin and red with no odor, then it is irregular bleeding; this is the sign. Some of the later scholars mentioned that one of the signs is that menstrual blood does not clot, while blood other than menstruation does clot. They explained this by saying that menstrual blood comes from the deepest part of the uterus; after it has been clotted, it cracks and then comes out, whereas the opposite is the case for other blood. This is one of the clear signs. If you try it and it becomes as we have just heard, and it does not exceed fifteen days, you wait until it exceeds twenty-five days.
The questioner : From the eighteenth of Sha'ban, from the eighteenth of Sha'ban.
The Shaykh : Sha'ban? Is it not from the twenty-eighth?
The questioner : No, from the eighteenth, no.
The Shaykh : If it is from Sha'ban, that means she took twelve days from Sha'ban and twelve days from Ramadan, making twenty-four days. So now she takes a bath, prays, and fasts. As for the days of prayer that were missed, if she makes them up, that is better; otherwise, she owes nothing.
The Shaykh : The default ruling for blood that affects a woman is that it is menstruation; this is the default. However, if a cause is found that provokes the blood and it comes from the veins, it is not menstruation. This is based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the woman with irregular bleeding: "That is only blood from a vein." The sign of irregular bleeding is that it continues with the woman for more than the usual duration, meaning she sees blood for fifteen days or more. Such a woman is one with irregular bleeding. The woman with irregular bleeding first returns to her custom. If her custom is six days from the beginning of the month, she sits for six days from the beginning of the month, then takes a bath and prays. If she has no custom, meaning the menstruation continued with her from the first time it came, she acts by differentiation. Differentiation means she looks at the blood: if it is black, it is menstruation; if it is foul-smelling, it is menstruation, meaning it has a bad odor; if it is thick, it is menstruation.
If it is the opposite, being thin and red with no odor, then it is irregular bleeding; this is the sign. Some of the later scholars mentioned that one of the signs is that menstrual blood does not clot, while blood other than menstruation does clot. They explained this by saying that menstrual blood comes from the deepest part of the uterus; after it has been clotted, it cracks and then comes out, whereas the opposite is the case for other blood. This is one of the clear signs. If you try it and it becomes as we have just heard, and it does not exceed fifteen days, you wait until it exceeds twenty-five days.
The questioner : From the eighteenth of Sha'ban, from the eighteenth of Sha'ban.
The Shaykh : Sha'ban? Is it not from the twenty-eighth?
The questioner : No, from the eighteenth, no.
The Shaykh : If it is from Sha'ban, that means she took twelve days from Sha'ban and twelve days from Ramadan, making twenty-four days. So now she takes a bath, prays, and fasts. As for the days of prayer that were missed, if she makes them up, that is better; otherwise, she owes nothing.
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اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1412هـ - 3 — binothaimeen.net (6:14)
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