Menstruation - Post-Natal Bleeding

- Menstruation

Women are also required to purify themselves by taking a ghusl in order to resume prayer after their menses has ended. Umm Habeebah asked Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) about prolonged blood-flow and he said, "Stop praying for as long as your menses used to prevent you from prayer, then take a ghusl and begin formal prayers." (Sahih Muslim vol. 1, p.190 no. 658)

- Post-Natal Bleeding

The bleeding following child-birth breaks the state of taharaah in the same way that menses does and requires that women take a ghusl whenever the bleeding stops to retain the state of purity necessary for formal prayer ( as long as it does not exceed forty days)

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