Discover the meaning of the term Al-astḥaḍa (استحاضة) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readBlood seen by a woman for less than three days or more than ten in menstruation, or beyond forty days in childbed.
Blood seen by a woman for less than three days or more than ten in menstruation, and beyond forty days in childbed, according to the school of Abu Hanifa; its rulings are set out in fiqh.
The flow of blood from a woman outside her menstrual days; it is blood of corruption and illness: any blood a woman sees other than menstruation and childbed bleeding, and other than the blood of wounds (al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya, 25/187; al-Qamus al-Fiqhi, pp. 17-18).
The flow of blood from the womb outside its usual times. By the Muslims' agreement: blood that issues by way of illness, not being menstrual blood (Ibn Rushd).