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Ruling 473. If a woman with a habit experiences bleeding for three or more days and after that her bleeding stops, and if she then experiences bleeding again and the gap between the two bleedings is less than ten days, and if all the days on which she experiences bleeding plus the days on which her bleeding stops total more than ten – for example, she experiences bleeding for five days, then her bleeding stops for five days, and then she experiences bleeding again for five days – in such a case, there are a few scenarios to consider: 1.

all or some of the woman’s first bleeding was on the days of her habit and her second bleeding was not on the days of her habit; in this case, she must consider all of her first bleeding to be ḥayḍ and her second bleeding to be istiḥāḍah.

However, if her second bleeding has the attributes of ḥayḍ, she must add together the number of days of her first bleeding and the number of days on which her bleeding stopped after her first bleeding; then, to that figure, she must add a number of days from her second bleeding such that the total number of days does not exceed ten. Having done this, she must consider her first bleeding and the bleeding on the days she added from her second bleeding to be ḥayḍ and the rest to be istiḥāḍah.

For example, if she experiences bleeding for three days, then her bleeding stops for three days, and then she experiences bleeding again for five days and her second bleeding has the attributes of ḥayḍ, the first three days plus four days from her second bleeding is ḥayḍ. For the days in between when her bleeding stops, she must, based on obligatory precaution, perform the obligatory acts that are required of a non-ḥāʾiḍ and refrain from doing the things that are unlawful for a ḥāʾiḍ; 2.

the woman’s first bleeding is not on the days of her habit, and all or some of her second bleeding is on the days of her habit. In this case, she must consider all of her second bleeding to be ḥayḍ and her first bleeding to be istiḥāḍah; 3.

some of the woman’s first and second bleeding is on the days of her habit, and her first bleeding that was on the days of her habit lasts for not less than three days, and the number of days on which her bleeding stops in between and some of the days of her second bleeding that was also on the days of her habit does not exceed ten. In this case, both bleedings are ḥayḍ.