Irregular bleeding after nifaas
Q: A woman gave birth. Continuous bleeding continued for 36 days. It stopped at 36 days. After 7 days, bleeding started again for 10 days. Then she had 10 days of no bleeding. After that, bleeding began continuously for a month (and may continue like this for months).
Her previous nifaas habit was 40 days. Before pregnancy, her last habit was 7 days haidh and 21 clean days.
She calculated the nifaas as a full forty days. She then began performing salaah, despite the bleeding. When the bleeding began 23 days after the 40-day nifaas, she stopped performing salaah for full 10 days. She then took ghusl and began performing salaah. Now 13 days of bleeding have passed after the ghusl.
a) Uptil now, has she acted correctly?
b) Currently, should she stop performing salaah after 15 days or after 21 days as was her habit previously before pregnancy?
c) Should she calculate her haidh as 7 days or 10 days, as she is bleeding continuously?
She is not sure if she should stop her salaah in 2 days or not, or if she should have stopped already.
A:
a) Since her previous nifaas was forty days, she will also calculate this nifaas as forty days. The blood seen after the fortieth day will be regarded as istihaadha. Hence, she acted correctly by commencing salaah after the fortieth day. However, since the bleeding did not stop for a complete tuhr (i.e. fifteen clean days) after the fortieth day, she is required to revert to her previous tuhr and haidh pattern i.e. 21 days tuhr and 7 days haidh.
According to this calculation, she should perform salaah for 21 days considering this period to be her tuhr and thereafter stop performing salaah for 7 days considering this period to be her haidh.
Based on this, she acted incorrectly by performing salaah for two more days (i.e. on the 22nd and the 23rd day after the 40th day). Her haidh commenced from the 22nd till the 28th after the 40th day. She should make qadha for the salaah she left out for five days (i.e. from the 29th till the 33rd day after the 40th day), as this period was part of her tuhr period.
b & c) As understood from the above, she will revert to her previous tuhr and haidh pattern. As long as the bleeding continues, she will regard her tuhr period as 21 days and haidh period as 7 days.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
وإن وقع في المبتدعة فحيضها من أول الاستمرار عشرة وطهرها عشرون ثم ذلك دأبها ونفاسها أربعون ثم عشرون طهرها إذ لايتوالى نفاس وحيض ثم عشرة حيضها ثم ذلك دأبها (ذخر المتأهلين مع شرحه منهل الواردين صـ 212-213)
فإن جاوز الدم الأربعين وقد كانت ولدت قبل ذلك ولها عادة في النفاس ردت إلى أيام عادتها لما بينا في الحيض (الهداية 1/70)
(وأقل الطهر في حق النفاسين ستة أشهر وفي حق غيرها) من حيضين أو حيض ونفاس (خمسة عشر يوما) وإن كان أقل من ذلك فالثاني استحاضة (ذخر المتأهلين مع شرحه منهل الواردين صـ 139)
(والحيض يسقط عن الحائض الصلاة ويحرم عليها الصوم وتقضي الصوم ولا تقضي الصلاة) لقول عائشة رضي الله عنها: كانت إحدانا على عهد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا طهرت من حيضها تقضي الصيام ولا تقضي الصلاة ولأن في قضاء الصلاة حرجا لتضاعفها ولا حرج في قضاء الصوم (الهداية 1/63-64)
(وأقل الطهر) بين الحيضتين أو النفاس والحيض (خمسة عشر يوما) ولياليها إجماعا (الدر المختار مع رد المحتار 1/285)
(فإن جاوز الدم الأربعين فالعادة باقية ردت اليها والباقي) أي ما زاد على العادة (استحاضة) فتقضى ما تركته فيه من الصلاة (ذخر المتأهلين مع شرحه منهل الواردين صـ 181)
(ودم الاستحاضة) كالرعاف الدائم لا يمنع الصوم ولا الصلاة ولا الوطء ... (ولو زاد الدم على عشرة أيام) ولها عادة معروفة دونها ردت إلى أيام عادتها والذي زاد استحاضة (الهداية 1/67)
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