Note: consulting your family for the number of days means...

📌Note: consulting your family for the number of days means asking your mother, sisters, paternal aunts and maternal aunts, and grandmothers about their blood cycle (menstruation). Asking about their duration means asking how many days they see blood every month. Some scenarios of women who have a ‘Habit of Time’ Scenario 1: This woman for the last 2 months has seen blood on one particular date but her duration varied. This month she saw blood on the same date but the flow went on for 10 days.

In this situation, all the ten days are considered to be ‘haidh’. Scenario 2: This woman for the last 2 months has seen blood on one particular date but her duration varied. This month she saw blood on the same date but the flow continued for 13 days. If the blood had all the signs of haidh for 8 days for example, then this woman should consider 8 days as being haidh and the rest as istihadha.

Scenario 3: This woman for the last 2 months has seen blood on one particular date but her duration varied. This month she saw blood on the same date but the flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation, this woman should consult her family and if for example, her family has a habit of 8 days then this woman should consider 8 days as being haidh and 5 days as istihadha.

Scenario 4: This woman for the last 2 months has seen blood on one particular date but her duration varied. This month she saw blood on the same date but the flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation, this woman should consult her family and if her family has no particular duration, then she should consider 7 days to be haidh and the rest istihadha. Scenario 5: This woman for the last 2 months has seen blood on one particular date but her duration varied.

This month she saw blood on the same date but the flow carried on for 13 days. There were no signs of haidh. In this situation, this woman should consult her family BUT if she has no family, then she should consider 7 days as haidh and the rest istihadha. Mudhtaribah: Disordered duration As we mentioned earlier, in the past 2 months when a woman sees blood on different dates and has no fixed duration at all then she is known as Mudhtaribah.

If she sees blood for more than 10 days then she must follow the guidelines below: If the blood has signs of haidh, then the number of days with signs is haidh and the rest is istihadha.

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