or put on a clean one. A small amount of blood, however, does not oblige one to repeat the prayer.
In Mālik’s view every type of blood is the same; this is the distilled doctrine of his school according to most of his colleagues. Some of them, though, equate menstrual blood with urine and cite Mālik for that position.
As for all impurities other than blood: if a worshiper begins the prayer with any of them on his person out of forgetfulness and then notices it, two situations arise. If he cannot remove the soiled garment, he breaks off the prayer, puts on another garment—or washes the stain—and then starts the prayer anew. If he can remove the garment while still praying, he should do so and continue the prayer.
ʿAbd al-Malik said: If someone sees an impurity on his clothes while in prayer, he does not break the prayer but completes it and then repeats it within its time. Should he remember only after finishing, he should still repeat it within the time by way of recommendation; if he deliberately postpones the repetition until the time has elapsed, he must repeat in any case.
Abū ʿUmar comments: Ibn al-Mājishūn’s statement that the person who notices an impurity on his garment during the prayer should continue yet is still required to repeat it is baseless; its obvious weakness spares us the need for refutation. His other statement—namely, that anyone who deliberately omits the repetition must always make the prayer up even after the time has passed—is correct with regard to obligating repetition for one who knowingly prays in an impure garment while able to wear a pure one. This is also the view of Muḥammad ibn Maslama, al-Mughīra al-Makhzūmī, Ibn al-Qāsim, and Ibn Kināna, and it is the sound position in our judgment: whoever consciously prays in a defiled garment while able to don a clean one must repeat that prayer indefinitely.
Ashhab, on the other hand, held that neither the deliberate nor the forgetful offender need repeat the prayer except within its appointed time, and this has likewise been reported from Ibn—