Musnad Ahmad 27474

Translation

✧ I was suffering from a severe, heavy menstrual bleeding. I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ to ask his ruling and inform him. I found him in the house of my sister Zaynab bt. Jaḥsh. She said: I said: O Messenger of God, I have a need to bring to you. He said: What is it? I said: O Messenger of God, I am suffering from heavy, severe menstrual bleeding. What do you think about it? It has prevented me from prayer and fasting. He said: I prescribe for you cotton, for it removes the blood. She said: It is more than that. He said: Then use a cloth. She said: It is more than that. He said: Then use a tight bandage. She said: It gushes profusely. He said to her: I will command you to two matters; whichever of them you do, it will suffice you in place of the other, and if you are able to do both, you know best. He said to her: This is only a strike from the strikes of Satan, so count your menses as six or seven days according to God’s knowledge, then perform ghusl. Then when you see that you have become pure and fully cleansed, pray for twenty-four nights or twenty-three nights and their days, and fast, for that will suffice you. Do likewise each month as women menstruate and become pure, according to the timing of their menstruation and purity. If you are able to delay ẓuhr and hasten ʿaṣr, then perform ghusl and pray ẓuhr and ʿaṣr together; then delay maghrib and hasten ʿishā’, then perform ghusl and combine the two prayers, do that; and perform ghusl with fajr and pray. Do that, and pray and fast if you are able to do so. And the Messenger of God ﷺ said: This is the more preferable of the two matters to me.

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