3. ✧ Menstruation

1. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 245No grade recorded

   « قَالَ اللهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى لِآدَمَ: يَا آدَمُ، مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى أَنْ أَكَلْتَ مِنَ الشَّجَرَةِ الَّتِي نَهَيْتُكَ عَنْهَا ؟ قَالَ: فَاعْتَلَّ آدَمُ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَبِّ، زَيَّنَتْهُ لِي حَوَّاءُ. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي عَاقَبْتُهَا بِأَنْ لَا تَحْمِلَهَا إِلَّا كُرْهًا، وَلَا تَضَعَهَا إِلَّا كُرْهًا، وَدَمَّيْتُهَا فِي كُلِّ شَهْرٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ. قَالَ: فَرَنَّتْ حَوَّاءُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ. فَقِيلَ لَهَا: عَلَيْكِ الرَّنَّةُ وَعَلَى بَنَاتِكِ

   ✧ “Allah, Blessed and Exalted, said to Adam: ‘O Adam, what led you to eat from the tree I forbade you?’” He said: “Adam made an excuse and said: ‘O Lord, Hawwa’ made it appealing to me.’ He said: ‘Then I have punished her by making her not carry except with discomfort, and not give birth except with discomfort, and I have made her bleed twice every month.’” He said: “Hawwa’ wailed at that, and it was said to her: ‘Upon you is the wailing, and upon your daughters.’”

2. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 246No grade recorded

   قَالَ: « نَاوِلِينِي الْخُمْرَةَ ». قِيلَ: مَنْ ؟ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ. فَقَالَتْ: إِنِّي حَائِضٌ. فَقَالَ: « إِنَّ حَيْضَتَكِ لَيْسَتْ فِي يَدِكِ »

   ✧ He said: “Hand me the khumrah.” It was said: Who? He said: The Prophet ﷺ. She said: “I am menstruating.” He said: “Your menstruation is not in your hand.”

3. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 247No grade recorded

   « كَانَتْ عَائِشَةُ ؓ تَنْهَى النِّسَاءَ أَنْ يَنْظُرْنَ إِلَى أَنْفُسِهِنَّ لَيْلًا فِي الْمَحِيضِ، وَتَقُولُ: قَدْ تَكُونُ الصُّفْرَةُ وَالْكُدْرَةُ

   ✧ “Aishah ؓ used to forbid women from looking at themselves at night during menstruation, and she would say: ‘There may be yellowness or duskiness.’”

4. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 248No grade recorded

   « كَانَتْ تُحَدِّثُنَا أَسْمَاءُ وَبَنَاتُ أَخِيهَا، فَكَانَتْ إِحْدَانَا تَغْتَسِلُ مِنَ الْحَيْضَةِ بَعْدَ الطُّهْرِ ثُمَّ الْحَيْضَةِ، سَلَسُهَا إِلَى الصُّفْرَةِ وَالْكُدْرَةِ، فَتَأْمُرُنَا أَنْ نَعْتَزِلَ الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى لَا نَرَى إِلَّا الْبَيَاضَ خَالِصًا

   ✧ “Asma’ and her brother’s daughters used to narrate to us. One of us would perform ghusl after the end of menstruation, then menstruation again—its flow leading to yellowness and duskiness—and she would command us to abstain from prayer until we saw nothing but pure whiteness.”

5. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 249No grade recorded

   « كَانَتْ إِحْدَانَا تَغْتَسِلُ فَتَبْقَى صُفْرَتُهَا

   ✧ “One of us would perform ghusl, and her yellowness would remain.”

6. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 250No grade recorded

   سَأَلَتْ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ قَيْسٍ ؓ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْمُسْتَحَاضَةِ، فَقَالَ: « عُدِّي أَيَّامَ أَقْرَائِكِ ». وَأَمَرَهَا أَنْ تَحْتَشِيَ وَتُصَلِّيَ وَتَغْتَسِلَ لِكُلِّ طُهْرٍ

   ✧ Fatimah bint Qays ؓ asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the woman with istihadah, and he said: “Count the days of your menstrual periods.” And he ordered her to use a cloth and pray and perform ghusl for every purification.

7. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 251No grade recorded

   « لِتَنْظُرْ خَمْسًا، سَبْعًا، ثَمَانِيًا، تِسْعًا، عَشْرًا، فَإِذَا مَضَتِ الْعَشْرُ فَهِيَ مُسْتَحَاضَةٌ

   ✧ “Let her consider five, seven, eight, nine, ten. When ten have passed, then she is a mustahadah.”

8. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 252No grade recorded

   « أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَمَرَ أُمَّ حَبِيبَةَ أَنْ تَغْتَسِلَ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ، وَكَانَتِ اسْتُحِيضَتْ

   ✧ “The Prophet ﷺ ordered Umm Habibah to perform ghusl for every prayer, and she had been suffering from istihadah.”

9. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 253No grade recorded

   أَنَّهَا سَأَلَتْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ فَقَالَتْ: إِنَّ إِحْدَانَا تَحِيضُ وَلَيْسَ لَهَا وَلِزَوْجِهَا إِلَّا فِرَاشٌ وَاحِدٌ وَلِحَافٌ وَاحِدٌ، فَكَيْفَ تَصْنَعُ ؟ قَالَتْ: « تَشُدُّ عَلَيْهَا إِزَارَهَا، ثُمَّ تَنَامُ مَعَهُ، وَلَهُ مَا فَوْقَ ذَلِكَ

   ✧ She asked 'A'ishah ؓ saying: 'One of us menstruates while she and her husband have only one bed and one blanket; what should she do?' She said: 'She should tie her waist-wrapper tightly, then sleep with him, and he may have what is above that.'

10. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 254No grade recorded

    « إِنَّ حُذَيْفَةَ ؓ كَانَ يَنْصَرِفُ مِنْ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ فِي رَمَضَانَ، فَيَدْخُلُ مَعَهَا فِي لِحَافِهِ وَيُوَلِّيهَا ظَهْرَهُ، وَلَا يُقْبِلُ بِوَجْهِهِ عَلَيْهَا »، تَعْنِي وَهِيَ حَائِضٌ

    ✧ Hudhayfah ؓ would leave after the dawn prayer in Ramadan and enter with her under his blanket, turning his back to her and not facing her, meaning while she was menstruating.

11. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 255No grade recorded

    « أَنَّهُ كَانَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَةٌ تَكْرَهُ الرِّجَالَ، فَكَانَ كُلَّمَا أَرَادَهَا اعْتَلَّتْ بِالْحَيْضَةِ، فَظَنَّ أَنَّهَا كَاذِبَةٌ فَأَتَاهَا فَوَجَدَهَا صَادِقَةً، فَأَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَتَصَدَّقَ بِخُمُسِ دِينَارٍ

    ✧ He had a wife who disliked men. Whenever he wanted her, she would claim to be menstruating. He thought she was lying, so he went to her and found her truthful. He came to the Prophet ﷺ, who ordered him to give charity of one-fifth of a dinar.

12. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 256No grade recorded

    إِنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ كَانَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَةٌ

    ✧ 'Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ had a wife.

13. al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 257No grade recorded

    أَنَّ عُمَرَ ؓ أَتَى جَارِيَةً لَهُ، فَقَالَتْ: إِنِّي حَائِضٌ، فَوَقَعَ بِهَا فَوَجَدَهَا حَائِضًا، فَأَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ: « يَغْفِرُ اللهُ يَا أَبَا حَفْصٍ، تَصَدَّقْ بِنِصْفِ دِينَارٍ

    ✧ 'Umar ؓ came to a slave-girl of his, and she said, 'I am menstruating.' He had intercourse with her and found her menstruating. He came to the Prophet ﷺ and mentioned that to him, so he said: 'May Allah forgive you, O Abu Hafs. Give charity of half a dinar.'