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130. Mu'ādḥah narrated that a woman asked 'Aīshah: "Shouldn't one of us make up her prayers the days of her menstruation?" So she said, "Are you one of the Harūriyyah?[1] Indeed we would menstruate, and we were not ordered to make up." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
And it has been reported from more than one route from 'Aīshah, that the menstruating woman does not make up the prayer.
This is the saying of the Fuqahā' in general, there is no difference among them, the menstruating woman makes up the fasts, but she does not make up the prayers.
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Commentary
Harūriyyah means a woman from Khawārij; these people emerged from a town called 'Hurū-rā', which is two miles from Al-Kūfah. They separated from Ali ﷺ during the return from battle of Siffin, instead of going to Al-Kūfah along with Ali ﷺ they alighted in the town of Harū-rā'. These people did not obey the commandments proven from the Sunnah. They regarded these commandments as addition to the Qur'an; and even the Prophet ﷺ did not have the authority to make additions to the Qur'an. Whereas, considering this as an addition to the Qur'an is wrong itself. The Sunnah is in fact, an explanation and illustration of the Qur'an. According to their false philosophy, making up missed prayers and fasts is obligatory. As for the
consensus of Ahlus-Sunnah, the prayers missed during the days of period are not to be made up; because the purification along with the capability of performing prayer is a condition for the obligation of prayer. When a woman, during the menses, is not pure, it is not obligatory for her to offer prayer, neither is it necessary to make up the missed ones. But as for fasting, only the capability is a condition for it, and purification is not a condition, therefore a sexually defiled person will fast.
