The Ruling on Dark Discharge Before and After Menstruation

Question:
This questioner from Abha, who used the initials (F. F) for her name, says: Your Eminence, Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), her question is about menstruation. She says: If the time for menstruation arrives, and that is preceded by abdominal pain and then dark discharge, and this dark discharge begins, for example, from dawn until night, and then the blood comes down, does she pray during the period of dark discharge or not? It is known that she does not use contraceptive pills.

Answer:
This dark discharge is a concomitant of menstruation, as long as it is her custom that the dark discharge begins and then the menstruation follows. It is part of the concomitants of menstruation, whether before it or after it. She does not pray and does not fast while any of this dark discharge is coming out; its ruling is the ruling of menstruation. And what comes after the menstruation is the same: if it is connected to it, its ruling is the ruling of menstruation, provided it is her custom, such that the dark discharge at the beginning or the dark discharge at the end is a concomitant of it. Yes.