Chapter on Menstruation, Istihada (abnormal bleeding), and Nifas (postpartum bleeding)

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 19
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Book 1, Chapter 19

Chapter on Menstruation, Istihada (abnormal bleeding), and Nifas (postpartum bleeding)

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ رَفَعَهُ عَنْ زُرْعَةَ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ جَارِيَةٍ حَاضَتْ أَوَّلَ حَيْضِهَا فَدَامَ دَمُهَا ثَلاَثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ هِيَ لاَ تَعْرِفُ أَيَّامَ أَقْرَائِهَا قَالَ« أَقْرَاؤُهَا مِثْلُ أَقْرَاءِ نِسَائِهَا فَإِنْ كَانَ نِسَاؤُهَا مُخْتَلِفَاتٍ فَأَكْثَرُ جُلُوسِهَا عَشَرَةُ أَيَّامٍ وَ أَقَلُّهُ ثَلاَثَةُ أَيَّامٍ».
Ahmad bin Muhammad, who raised it to Zur'ah, from Sama'ah, who said: I asked Imam عليه السلام about a young girl who experienced her first menstruation, and her bleeding lasted for three months, and she did not know the days of her cycles. Imam عليه السلام said: "Her cycles should follow the pattern of the women in her family. If the women in her family have different cycles, then the maximum period she should observe is ten days, and the minimum is three days."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 1, p. 403
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb