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Reciting Quran whilst in mensuration.

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Question

Assalamualaikum wa rahmathullahi wabarakaathuhu. ....my doubt is....is it possible to read or study quran during women's hayl time....is am a student who studied in thableeg banat at present I am in saudi arabia here most of the salafs are teaching quran during hayl .... they are telling there is no hadees that ladies should not recite during mensuration time.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

According to majority of scholars (mujtahideen) a woman in haidh (menstruation) is not permitted to recite the Qur’ān whether from memory, using a copy of the Qur’ān.1

Consider the following Hadith,

Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Umar says that Rasullullah صلي الله عليه وسلم said, a woman who is in her haidh (menstruation) and a person who is in the state of janābat (major impurity) should not recite anything from Qur’ān. سنن الترمذي ت بشار (1/ 194)

Imam Tirmidhi رحمه الله states under this hadith,

This the view of majority of the companions of Rasulullah صلي الله عليه وسلم and the successors to the Sahabah and their heirs. Such as Hazrat Sufyan Thauri, Hazrat Abdullah ibn Mubarak, Imaam Shafi, Imaam Ahmad and Imaam Ishaq.

The hadith in reference is narrated through many chains of narrators and is considered authentic as also understood from the references in the footnotes.2

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Huzaifah Deedat

Student Darul Iftaa
Lusaka, Zambia

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: لاَ تَقْرَأِ الحَائِضُ، وَلاَ الجُنُبُ شَيْئًا مِنَ القُرْآنِ.

وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ العِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَالتَّابِعِينَ، وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ مِثْلِ: سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، وَابْنِ المُبَارَكِ، وَالشَّافِعِيِّ، وَأَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ،

Answered by
Huzaifah Deedat
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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