Explanation of the Book of Ablution, Ghusl, Menstruation, and Tayammum-07b
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The reciter: Muhammad narrated to us, saying: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us, saying: Hisham ibn 'Urwah narrated to us from his father from 'A'ishah, he said: Mishkat al-Masabih 557.
The Shaykh : In my copy, with a kasrah: In your copy, with a kasrah?
The reciter: In my copy, with a fathah.
The Shaykh : Fine, it is correct.
The reciter: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih al-Bukhari 228 He said: And my father said: .
The Shaykh : Al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Chapter on Washing Blood". The blood here may be intended in the general sense, meaning blood as blood, so the article "al" here is either for generality or to indicate the reality. It is also possible that the intended meaning of blood is the well-known blood about which the question was asked in the hadith, which is menstrual blood.
Most scholars use the hadith of Fatimah bint Abi Habish and others as evidence that blood, in general, is ritually impure, and that it must be washed, except for what remains in the blood and vessels after the lawful slaughter of a beast, for that is pure and not ritually impure, because it remained after the slaughtered animal had become lawful. We should distinguish and say, for example: The blood of a ritually impure animal is ritually impure, and a small amount of it is not excused, and it is washed, such as the blood of a donkey, the blood of a dog, the blood of wild beasts, the blood of a pig, and the like. This is ritually impure by the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He):[Al-An'am 6:145].
The second category: Blood from what is pure in its dead state, meaning the blood of what is pure in its dead state. This is not ritually impure, such as the blood of fish. Likewise, the blood that comes from some small animals whose dead state is pure, such as flies. Flies have some blood in them, but it is not ritually impure because their dead state is pure. So anything whose dead state is pure, its blood is pure, except for human blood according to the majority, for its dead state is pure and its blood is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused.
The first category is ritually impure.
The second is what is pure in its dead state, so its blood is pure.
The third is the pure one whose dead state is ritually impure, so its blood is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused, such as the blood of a sheep, a camel, a cow, a chicken, and the like. Their blood is ritually impure because their dead state is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused due to the difficulty of guarding against it in most cases. These are the types of blood.
And there remains human blood. Most scholars hold that it is ritually impure, and some scholars said that it is not ritually impure except for what comes from the two passages. They cited as evidence for this that its dead state is pure, so it is like the blood of fish; that is, human blood is like the blood of fish. They also cited as evidence the hadith: If the limb, when cut off while containing blood, is pure, then the blood is all the more so...
They also cited as evidence that the Companions were wounded in jihad and prayed with their wounds without washing them from their bodies, and they did not wash their clothes of the blood.
As for what is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that Fatimah used to wash the blood from his face during the Battle of Uhud, this is not necessarily because of its ritual impurity; it may have been to clean the face of the blood.
What appears to me is that there is no evidence for the ritual impurity of human blood except for what comes from the passage, but out of consideration for the opinion of the majority of scholars, a person should keep himself pure from it, and if it touches him, he should wash and clean it.
As for the two hadiths mentioned by the author, he said:Sahih al-Bukhari 3659 Asma' said: She said: Under what? Menstruation, meaning menstrual blood, because blood coagulates, and when it coagulates, it is scraped off because it has a thickness.
And this phrase, namely his saying:, contains evidence against the saying of those who say that menstrual blood does not coagulate, because some contemporary doctors said that the difference between menstrual blood and irregular bleeding is that menstrual blood does not coagulate, and that irregular bleeding coagulates. They said that this is because menstrual blood is the bursting of the sacs in the uterus, which had coagulated before. But here the hadith indicates that it coagulates.
He said: Rubbing is the rubbing with the tips of the fingers. People call it, in our area, when a person's hand is like this, what do you call it?
They call it rubbing. This rubbing means, for example, you rub this garment like this with your fingers, and you sprinkle it with water after you rub it. Sprinkling means washing it, and you pray in it. So the stages are:
First, scraping, then rubbing, then sprinkling, which is washing. Three stages.
As for her saying:, this indicates that it is permissible for a woman to pray in menstrual clothes after she has purified them.
Fatima daughter of Abu Hubaish coming to the Prophet and saying, “I am a woman whose blood keeps flowing, and I am never purified; Shall I therefore abandon prayer?” He replied, “No that is only a vein and is not menstruation
جاءت فاطمة بنت أبي حبيش إلى النبي صلّى الله عليه وسلم فقالت : يا رسول الله إني امرأة استحاض فلا أطهر أفأدع الصلاة ؟ فقال رسول الله صلّى الله عليه وسلم : لا، إنما ذلك عرق وليس بحيضThe Shaykh : In my copy, with a kasrah:
That
ذلكِThe reciter: In my copy, with a fathah.
The Shaykh : Fine, it is correct.
The reciter: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
No, because it is from a blood vessel and not the menses. So when your real menses begins give up your prayers and when it has finished wash off the blood (take a bath) and offer your prayers.
لا إنما ذلكَ عرق وليس بحيض ، فإذا أقبلت حيضتك فدعي الصلاة وإذا ادبرت فاغسلي عنك الدم ثم صليThen perform wudu' for every prayer until that time comes.
ثم توضئي لكل صلاة حتى يجيء ذلك الوقتThe Shaykh : Al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Chapter on Washing Blood". The blood here may be intended in the general sense, meaning blood as blood, so the article "al" here is either for generality or to indicate the reality. It is also possible that the intended meaning of blood is the well-known blood about which the question was asked in the hadith, which is menstrual blood.
Most scholars use the hadith of Fatimah bint Abi Habish and others as evidence that blood, in general, is ritually impure, and that it must be washed, except for what remains in the blood and vessels after the lawful slaughter of a beast, for that is pure and not ritually impure, because it remained after the slaughtered animal had become lawful. We should distinguish and say, for example: The blood of a ritually impure animal is ritually impure, and a small amount of it is not excused, and it is washed, such as the blood of a donkey, the blood of a dog, the blood of wild beasts, the blood of a pig, and the like. This is ritually impure by the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He):
Say, "I do not find within that which was revealed to me [anything] forbidden to one who would eat it unless it be a dead animal or blood spilled out or the flesh of swine - for indeed, it is impure
قل لا أجد في ما أوحي إلي محرما على طاعم يطعمه إلا أن يكون ميتة أو دما مسفوحا أو لحم خنزير فإنه رجسThe second category: Blood from what is pure in its dead state, meaning the blood of what is pure in its dead state. This is not ritually impure, such as the blood of fish. Likewise, the blood that comes from some small animals whose dead state is pure, such as flies. Flies have some blood in them, but it is not ritually impure because their dead state is pure. So anything whose dead state is pure, its blood is pure, except for human blood according to the majority, for its dead state is pure and its blood is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused.
The first category is ritually impure.
The second is what is pure in its dead state, so its blood is pure.
The third is the pure one whose dead state is ritually impure, so its blood is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused, such as the blood of a sheep, a camel, a cow, a chicken, and the like. Their blood is ritually impure because their dead state is ritually impure, but a small amount of it is excused due to the difficulty of guarding against it in most cases. These are the types of blood.
And there remains human blood. Most scholars hold that it is ritually impure, and some scholars said that it is not ritually impure except for what comes from the two passages. They cited as evidence for this that its dead state is pure, so it is like the blood of fish; that is, human blood is like the blood of fish. They also cited as evidence the hadith:
What is clear from a living thing is like its dead state.
ما أبين من حي فهو كميتتهThey also cited as evidence that the Companions were wounded in jihad and prayed with their wounds without washing them from their bodies, and they did not wash their clothes of the blood.
As for what is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that Fatimah used to wash the blood from his face during the Battle of Uhud, this is not necessarily because of its ritual impurity; it may have been to clean the face of the blood.
What appears to me is that there is no evidence for the ritual impurity of human blood except for what comes from the passage, but out of consideration for the opinion of the majority of scholars, a person should keep himself pure from it, and if it touches him, he should wash and clean it.
As for the two hadiths mentioned by the author, he said:
A woman came to the Prophet (ﷺ)
جاءت امرأة النبي صلّى الله عليه وسلم“What do you say about one of us who has her menstrual period in a garment? How should she deal with it?” He said: “She should scrape off the clotted blood.”
أرأيت إحدانا تحيض في الثوب كيف تصنع ؟ قال : تحتهAnd this phrase, namely his saying:
“She should scrape off the clotted blood.”
تحتهHe said:
Then she should rub it with water.
ثم تقرصه بالماءThey call it rubbing. This rubbing means, for example, you rub this garment like this with your fingers, and you sprinkle it with water after you rub it. Sprinkling means washing it, and you pray in it. So the stages are:
First, scraping, then rubbing, then sprinkling, which is washing. Three stages.
As for her saying: