she becomes pure at the end of the day, the time for Zuhr is still in; she therefore performs Zuhr before ʿAsr. Likewise, if she becomes pure at the end of the night, the time for Maghrib is still in for one who has an excuse, so she performs Maghrib before ʿIshāʾ. End quote.
If, however, the time of a prayer enters while she is still pure and then she menstruates or experiences post-partum bleeding before she has prayed, the stronger opinion is that she is not required to make up that prayer, even though she caught the beginning of its time.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said in Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (23/335) regarding this issue: “The view supported by the clearer evidence is that of Abū Ḥanīfah and Mālik: she does not have to do anything, because making up a prayer can only be required by a fresh command, and here there is no command obligating her to make it up. Moreover, she delayed the prayer within an allowed margin, so she is not negligent. As for the sleeper or the forgetful person—even though neither is negligent—what he performs is not a make-up; rather, that is the time of the prayer for him once he wakes up or remembers.” End quote.
Second: Istihādah
Rulings concerning istihādah
- Legal rulings related to istihādah
Istihādah (irregular bleeding) is the flow of blood outside its usual time, in the form of a hemorrhage from a vein called the ʿādhil. A woman experiencing istihādah faces difficulty because the blood of menstruation can be confused with the blood of istihādah.
So if the blood continues to flow constantly, or for most of the time, what