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Is a woman on her period ritually impure?

salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith tafsir tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer imaam imams prayer leader masjed masaajid masajid hambali hanbalite hanbali school fatwah fatawa fatwaa fataawa legal opinion muftis halal halaal lawful haraam forbidden kuffar kafir kaafir kufar kaafirun disbelief koran quraan al-quran 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa

Menstruation is not impurity; a late Hanbali view on intercourse during menses; Abu Hanifa on breastfeeding

DiscussionRecorded 19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 8 of 35 in the recording2020-04-19b-S08

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Mufti Abu Layth says menstruation is a hygiene matter, not impurity; the guest cites late Hanbali scholars who permitted intercourse during menses and Abu Hanifa's longer breastfeeding period to show how varied the fiqh is.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he has spoken on menstruation and holds that it is not a state of impurity: the prayer is forgiven as a gift from God to make life easy, and where the Prophet spoke of certain women not coming to the mosque it was a hygiene matter in an age without sanitary products, so a woman is not impure because she is menstruating. The guest says some late Hanbali scholars, in a text and its commentary whose names are garbled [?], permitted intercourse during menstruation for a man overwhelmed by desire, which he finds fascinating from a fatwa perspective and says would be called kufr today if stated without quoting a scholar. He adds that Abu Hanifa held that breastfeeding could extend beyond two years, to two and a half, for which he was criticised for opposing the Quran; Mufti says the Quran describes two years as the standard rather than setting a limit, so going a day over is not haram. The guest says many scholarly differences of opinion have simply not been conveyed to people.

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would come through then another person but the hadith actually that Imam Ali brings says man they used to do it together so it's massively it rocks the boat on this kind of issue the false interpretation and I had I had an article on that as well and I think I gather different routes and wrote them on my Facebook page so this is the false Bobby like they when they don't have anything left they come off this false are we like and try to bring

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different you know criticize it I know I've mentioned this to you previously already but that you see I've had a take my photo and my understanding has been when it comes to women entering the Masjid not only obviously that's an obvious cut even right but I've spoken on issues of menstruation and said that I do not feel that the menstruation is a state of nature sir it is not a state of impurity yes the Salah is forgiven as a rose as a kind of gift from God to make

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life easy but these it's not that these women are impure it's simply a hygiene issue that when the Prophet spoke about certain women not coming in the mosque in the time of the Prophet Elisha Salim from a sanitary perspective they weren't things like you know kind of they don't have menstrual pads and things like this the way people do today you're in later years and it was just an issue so you have certain narrations where a lady had her menstrual cycle she was sitting there she got up and you know you it was kind of all stained and so you can imagine these kind of things happened in the past and still perhaps today in some

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parts of the world but it's not a nature and impurity issue a woman is not impure just because she's on her hip she's on her menstrual cycle I'm not sure what your thoughts are on this share on this topic but I'd like to say one thing that there were some late humbly purist who permitted intercourse during the menstruation cycles yeah I've come across something like I

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mean drinks that you've come across I think if you if we look into this and try to find some classical scholars like and we may definitely find something but this was interesting any idea which specific kind of Hannibal Oh on tarting it was I have it's on my facebook I haven't see but yeah you were saying

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carry on mean well yeah so yeah dead scholar and in the commentary as well so they both the commentary was done by I think the nudge teeth : they nicely humbly scholar the peas they are kind of humbly yeah so this he wrote in the comment with that shake and both in the text said if he feel you know

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desires if he had so much oh the desires over from the front from the front private parts of the woman these even during the menses so this was kind of interesting because normally it's very fascinating I mean it's fascinating not from just a sexual perspective but it's fascinating from a fatwa perspective that because there's a diverse and they derogating

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they're making taxis of the you know that soccer Boone is then he may penetrate and fulfill it aside so you can imagine if anyone else would have stayed this today like if you don't quote that scholar you the straight away get a photo of Cooper and things like that and see even the even the Abu Hanifa view of you know feeding the milk to the child to the infant milk

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the woman smell the wrong woman why would why would she not wrong milk to a child yeah no no on hold her own own milk so above the crowd subscribe for up to a maximum of two years but Abu Hanifah said it's more than that a pony for that could be more than that to be fit the Quran doesn't kind of place as a limit is simply just described so you know what I don't worry that can be lame so that this is you

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know whoever wants to complete it it's like two years as a standard but it doesn't mean if you go one day over two years you've committed a Haram or something it's just a description of yeah of course but definitely trying to say that Abu Hanifah I think he said more to two years and six months or something like that that's why boo hanifa is being criticized for opposing the Quranic you know the Quranic smells and things like that so if we may look into different spec issues we definitely find difference of opinion there's always and

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and like the way the hadith head has been narrated to us the scholarly opinions have not been recorded and reached to a terrible scholar who had different opinion but they have been they haven't been used to us ghosts and those were different from the what normally are being conveyed from the for Mata Haven and the issue is that if you come up with a fatwa that you know like what you mentioned it's slightly weird or a bit outside the box or in some of these things like we I

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-04-19b-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/8/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, April 19). Is a woman on her period ritually impure? [Video, segment 2020-04-19b-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/8/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Is a woman on her period ritually impure?" Video, segment 2020-04-19b-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 19, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/8/
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  title = {{Is a woman on her period ritually impure?}},
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  month = {4},
  date = {2020-04-19},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/8/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-04-19b-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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