A woman whose clothes are stained with her menstrual blood

Sayyidah Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: If menstrual blood gets on a woman's clothes, what should she do? He said: She should scrape it with water, wash it, and pray in that same garment.

Adi bin Dinar said: Sayyidah Umm Husayn (may Allah be pleased with her) asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): If menstrual blood gets on a garment, what should be done? He said: "Scrape it off with a piece of wood, then wash it with water and lote-tree leaves, then pray in that same garment."

A woman asked Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her): If a menstruating woman has worn some clothes, may she pray in them after becoming pure? She said: If there is blood on them, she should wash it; otherwise she may pray in them as they are.

Nafi' said: The wives of Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and his slave-women who had borne him children (umm walad) would not wash, after becoming pure from menstruation, the clothes they had worn during their menstruation. Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) would say to them: If you see blood on them, wash them.

Hammad asked Ibrahim about menstrual blood that gets on a garment. He said: Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: It is sufficient for women to wash it with water.

Makhul said: There is no harm if a woman does not wash the clothes she wore during her menstruation; however, if blood has got on them, she should wash it.

Ibrahim said: If a menstruating woman does not see any trace of blood on the clothes she wore during her menstruation, then after becoming pure she should sprinkle water on them and pray in those same clothes.

A man said to Ata: If a menstruating woman, after becoming pure, sees a trace of blood on her clothes, is it not sufficient for her to wash the blood and leave the rest of the clothes? He said: It is sufficient.

Sa'id bin Jubayr was asked: If menstrual blood gets on the clothes, what should be done? He said: The woman should wash it and apply wars (a yellow dye), saffron or ambergris to that spot.

Ibrahim said: If menstrual blood has got on a woman's clothes, she must wash it; sprinkling water is nothing.

Mu'adhah said: A woman asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) about sprinkling water on blood stains on a garment. She said: Wash it with water, for it is purified by water.

Jabir bin Zayd was asked: If a woman washes menstrual blood that has got on her clothes but a trace of the blood remains, may she pray in that garment? He said: She may pray in it.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: One of us would have a single shift in which she menstruated and in which she was in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah); then she would see on it a drop of her menstrual blood, and she would scrape it off with her saliva.

Mujahid said: A woman may pray in the clothes she wore during her menstruation, but if blood has got on them, she should wash it.

Rabi' said: I asked al-Hasan whether a woman may pray in the clothes she wore during her menstruation. He said: There is no harm in it; however, if something has got on them, she should wash it.

Al-Hakam said concerning the clothes of a menstruating woman: She should wash the place of the blood.