In the Name of Allāh, the Entirely Gracious, the Exclusively Merciful

📩 Question:

The questioner asks: If brown or yellow discharge leaves a woman whilst the time for her menstrual cycle is after a day or two from this day, is that which has left considered to be menstruation and so she doesn’t fast?

📝 The answer:

That which leaves a woman before the exiting of the menstrual blood, regardless of if it being some remnants (of old blood) or yellow discharge, it is not considered to be menstrual blood until her bleeding begins. Upon this, she must pray and fast, and she continues in her prayer and fasting until the bleeding begins.

As soon as the bleeding begins it is obligatory upon her to stop praying and fasting due to the Hadith of Umm ‘Atiyyah (رضي الله عنها) in Bukhari and Abu Dawud whereby she said:
كُنَّا لاَ نَعُدُّ الصُّفْرَةَ وَالْكُدْرَةَ شَيْئًا
"We did not think that the yellowish or brownish discharge counted for anything."

Hence the brown or yellow discharge is not considered to be menstrual blood, and Allah knows best.

Original Fatwa:
https://t.me/ibnhezam/16797

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