Remember that she is in her second month of pregnancy and experienced bleeding that lasted for five days, and she asked the doctor whether these days are considered menstruation or
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The questioner : The questioner says: The questioner remembers that she was in her second month of pregnancy and experienced bleeding that lasted for five days. She asked the doctor whether these days are considered menstruation, irregular bleeding, or post-natal bleeding. The doctor told her that it is considered menstruation, so she left off the prayer during that time. Then, in the third month, she experienced another bleeding that lasted twelve days, and she left off the prayer in that case as well. Her question is: What is the ruling on this bleeding: is it menstruation, irregular bleeding, or post-natal bleeding? What is the ruling on my leaving off the prayer in it? And do I have to make up the prayers and is there a sin on me for that?
The Shaykh : The blood that comes to a woman in post-natal bleeding is not menstrual blood, nor irregular bleeding, nor post-natal bleeding; rather, it is blood from a vein, corrupt blood. One does not leave off the prayer or fasting in Ramadan because of it, and her husband does not avoid her except if it comes one or two days before delivery with labor pains, in which case it is post-natal bleeding, or if it continues according to her original custom in the early stages of pregnancy, in which case it is menstruation. This woman who consulted the doctor made a mistake, because the doctor is generally not a jurist in the religion of Allah. The doctor is sinful if she issued a ruling without knowledge, and she is sinful for consulting the doctor about a religious legal issue. I see that it is obligatory for her to make up the days on which she did not pray in that blood, and to repent to Allah, and not to ask about knowledge except from its people. The doctor is asked about medicine, not about religious knowledge, and the religious scholar is asked about religious knowledge, not about medical knowledge, unless he has knowledge of it.
The questioner : If post-natal bleeding continues for more than forty days after delivery, what is the ruling?
The Shaykh : If it exceeds forty days and remains on the same pattern without changing, it is post-natal bleeding up to sixty days. If it changes, it is nothing, except if it coincides with her custom, in which case it becomes her custom. For example, if her custom is from the beginning of the month, and the completion of the forty days coincides with the end of the previous month, and the blood that differed from the post-natal blood corresponds to the blood of her custom, then it is her custom. Otherwise, it is corrupt blood or irregular bleeding, for which one does not leave off the prayer or fasting in Ramadan.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and benefit the Muslims through you.
The Shaykh : The blood that comes to a woman in post-natal bleeding is not menstrual blood, nor irregular bleeding, nor post-natal bleeding; rather, it is blood from a vein, corrupt blood. One does not leave off the prayer or fasting in Ramadan because of it, and her husband does not avoid her except if it comes one or two days before delivery with labor pains, in which case it is post-natal bleeding, or if it continues according to her original custom in the early stages of pregnancy, in which case it is menstruation. This woman who consulted the doctor made a mistake, because the doctor is generally not a jurist in the religion of Allah. The doctor is sinful if she issued a ruling without knowledge, and she is sinful for consulting the doctor about a religious legal issue. I see that it is obligatory for her to make up the days on which she did not pray in that blood, and to repent to Allah, and not to ask about knowledge except from its people. The doctor is asked about medicine, not about religious knowledge, and the religious scholar is asked about religious knowledge, not about medical knowledge, unless he has knowledge of it.
The questioner : If post-natal bleeding continues for more than forty days after delivery, what is the ruling?
The Shaykh : If it exceeds forty days and remains on the same pattern without changing, it is post-natal bleeding up to sixty days. If it changes, it is nothing, except if it coincides with her custom, in which case it becomes her custom. For example, if her custom is from the beginning of the month, and the completion of the forty days coincides with the end of the previous month, and the blood that differed from the post-natal blood corresponds to the blood of her custom, then it is her custom. Otherwise, it is corrupt blood or irregular bleeding, for which one does not leave off the prayer or fasting in Ramadan.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and benefit the Muslims through you.