Chapter on Additions

Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya, from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar, from Ali ibn Mahziyar, who said: I (narrator) wrote to Imam عليه السلام: “A woman became pure from her menstruation or from the blood of her postnatal bleeding (nifas) on the first day of the month of Ramadan, then she had irregular bleeding (istihadah), so she prayed and fasted the whole month of Ramadan without doing what the woman with irregular bleeding (al-mustahadah) does of performing the ritual bath (ghusl) for every two prayers. Is her fasting and her prayer valid or not?” So the Imam عليه السلام, peace be upon him, wrote: “She must make up her fasting, and she does not make up her prayer, because the Messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, peace and blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى be upon him and his family, used to command the blessed Sayyidah Fatimah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, peace be upon her, and the believing women among his wives, with that.”