A woman performed the obligatory Hajj with her husband and family, and after returning to her country, the woman informed them that her menstruation started while she was performing the farewell tawaf
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The questioner : She recalls that they performed the obligatory Hajj last year with her daughter and her husband, and after returning to their country, the daughter informed them that her menstruation started while she was performing the farewell tawaf, and she did not inform them until after returning to the house. What should they do?
The Shaykh : A menstruating woman does not perform tawaf around the House, based on the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) when she menstruated before they reached Makkah, where he said:Muwatta Malik 20:236 And when it was mentioned to him that Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) had menstruated after the completion of Hajj, he said: They said: She has already performed the farewell tawaf. He said: This indicates that a menstruating woman cannot perform tawaf around the House, because a menstruating woman is prohibited from staying in the mosque, not from passing through it. And if she is prohibited from staying in the mosque, then tawaf is a form of staying.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In the Sacred Mosque, and even if it is a form of staying involving movement. Accordingly, if this woman who menstruated during the farewell tawaf did not inform her family, and if she exercises caution and slaughters a fidyah in Makkah to be distributed to the poor, that is better. This is because her tawaf became invalid due to the onset of menstruation during it. However, if she does not do so, I hope that nothing is required of her, because if this woman had menstruated before she began the farewell tawaf, the farewell tawaf would have been dropped from her. So if she began it while in a state of purity and then menstruated during it, she has done what Allah made obligatory upon her, and the remainder of the tawaf is dropped from her due to the presence of menstruation. Therefore, it is not clear that a fidyah is obligatory upon her. But if she pays the fidyah, that is better, and if she does not pay it, nothing is required of her.
The questioner : Okay, may Allah bless you. The listener is Maha from Jeddah.
The Shaykh : A menstruating woman does not perform tawaf around the House, based on the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) when she menstruated before they reached Makkah, where he said:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that A'isha said, "I came to Makka at the time of my period so I did not do tawaf of the House or go between Safa and Marwa. I complained to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said, 'Do what the people doing hajj do except do not do tawaf of the House and go between Safa and Marwa until you are pure.' " Malik said, concerning a woman who entered ihram for umra at the time of hajj, and she arrived in Makka during her period and so could not do tawaf of the House, "When she fears that the time (for hajj) is getting close, she gets into ihram for the hajj and sacrifices an animal. She is like someone who combines the hajj and the umra. One tawaf is enough for her. If a women starts her period after she has already done tawaf of the House and prayed, she does say between Safa and Marwa and stops at Arafa and Muzdalifa and stones the jamras but she does not do the tawaf al-ifada until she is pure and has finished her menses."
افعلي ما يفعل الحاج غير ألا تطوفي بالبيتIs she our companion?
أحابستنا هي؟Depart
فانفرواThe questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In the Sacred Mosque, and even if it is a form of staying involving movement. Accordingly, if this woman who menstruated during the farewell tawaf did not inform her family, and if she exercises caution and slaughters a fidyah in Makkah to be distributed to the poor, that is better. This is because her tawaf became invalid due to the onset of menstruation during it. However, if she does not do so, I hope that nothing is required of her, because if this woman had menstruated before she began the farewell tawaf, the farewell tawaf would have been dropped from her. So if she began it while in a state of purity and then menstruated during it, she has done what Allah made obligatory upon her, and the remainder of the tawaf is dropped from her due to the presence of menstruation. Therefore, it is not clear that a fidyah is obligatory upon her. But if she pays the fidyah, that is better, and if she does not pay it, nothing is required of her.
The questioner : Okay, may Allah bless you. The listener is Maha from Jeddah.