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131. Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The menstruating woman does not recite – nor the Junub – anything from the Qur'an."
[He said:] There is narration on this topic from 'Ali ﷺ (Da'if)
Abū 'Eisā said: We do not know of the Hadīth of Ibn 'Umar except from the narration of Ismā'il bin 'Ayyāsh, from Mūsā bin 'Uqbah, from Nāfi', from Ibn 'Umar, from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said: "The menstruating woman does not recite – nor the Junub."
This is the saying of most of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, the Tābi'īn, and those after them. Like Sufyān [Ath-Thawrī], Ibn Al-Mubārak, Ash-Shāfi'ī, Aḥmad and Iṣhāq: They say that the menstruating and the Junub do not recite anything from the Qur'an, except for the first part of a Verse, or a word, or the like. They permit Tasbiḥ[1] and Tahlīl[2] for the
Junub and the menstruating persons.
He said: I heard Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl saying: "Ismā'īl bin 'Ayyāsh reported objectionable Aḥādīth from the people of Al-Hijāz and the people of Al-'Irāq."
It is as if he graded him weak in the case of those narrations which he alone narrated from them. And he said: "Ismā'īl bin 'Ayyāsh only narrated from the people of Ash-Shām.
Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal said: Ismā'īl bin 'Ayyāsh is better than Baqiyyah, and there are some Aḥādīth that Baqiyyah narrated from trustworthy narrators that are objectionable.
Abū 'Eisā said: Aḥmad bin Al-Ḥasan narrated that to me, he said: "I heard Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal saying that."
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Footnotes
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[1] Statements glorifying Allāh.
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[2] Declaring that none has the right to be worshipped but Allāh.
Commentary
It is the consensus that the words of Allāh's remembrance, glory and Tawḥīd etc. are allowed for menstruating woman and for a sexually impure person; but as for the recitation of Qur'ān, the opinions are different. Menstruating woman and a sexually impure person are not allowed to recite Qur'ān, according to the three A'immah, the majority of the Companions ﷺ, and the successors.
