Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Musa bin Ma’bad states that a woman from his family sat in i’tikaf in the mosque for a month. She had been sitting for twenty-nine days when she began menstruating, so she returned to her home. When she became pure, her husband had lawful relations with her. Hazrat Musa says that he went to Hazrat Salim and Hazrat Qasim, and both of them told him: First go to Hazrat Sa’id bin al-Musayyib and then come to us. I went to Hazrat Sa’id bin al-Musayyib and asked him about this matter. He said: Both of them have betrayed the limits set by Allah and acted against the Sunnah. It is obligatory upon the woman to sit in i’tikaf again (from the beginning). Hazrat Musa says that he then went back to Hazrat Salim and Hazrat Qasim and informed them of what he had been told. Both of them said: This is also our opinion.