163 – On the authority of ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her): the Prophet ﷺ said, “Allah does not accept the prayer of a ḥāʾiḍ except with a khimār.” Reported by the Five except al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Khuzaymah authenticated it. ⦗1⦘

Hadith grading
The narration is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
• Transmitted by Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, al-Ḥākim, and al-Bayhaqī.
• Al-Tirmidhī said, “A ḥasan (good) hadith.” Al-Ḥākim declared it “authentic on the conditions of Muslim,” and al-Dhahabī agreed.
• Ibn Khuzaymah, Aḥmad Shākir, and al-Albānī likewise judged it authentic.

Vocabulary
• ḥāʾiḍ: One says, “ḥāḍat al-marʾah ḥayḍan (the woman menstruated), so she is a ḥāʾiḍ,” a term specific to women. It may also appear as ḥāʾiḍah; the plurals are ḥāʾiḍāt and ḥuyyaḍ. In the hadith, “al-ḥāʾiḍ” does not denote a woman actually menstruating while performing the prayer; rather, it refers to a female who has reached puberty.
• khimār (pl. khumur): The verb khammara means “to cover,” and takhmīr is “covering.” A woman’s khimār is the cloth with which she covers her head and neck.

Lessons derived from the hadith
1 – A menstruating woman neither performs the prayer nor is her prayer valid while she is menstruating; rather, what is meant by his statement