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2613. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ delivered a Khutbah in which he exhorted them, then he said: "O women! Give charity for you are the majority of the people of the Fire." A woman among them said: "And why is that O Messenger of Allāh?" He said: "Because of your cursing so much," – meaning your ungratefulness towards your husbands. He said: "And I have not seen any among those lacking in intellect and religion who are more difficult upon people possessing reason and insight than you." A woman among them said: "And what is the deficiency of her intellect and religion?" He said: "The testimony of two women among you is like the testimony of
a man, and the deficiency in your religion is menstruation, because one of you will go three or four days without performing Ṣalāt.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
There are narrations on this topic from Abū Sa‘eed and Ibn ‘Umar.
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ [from this route].
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A woman in the state of menses cannot perform prayer nor can she observe fasting. After passing the menstruation period she makes up the missed fasts but the missed prayers are not required to be made up. Prayer is a good deed, due to the reason of the prayers being missed, Imān of a woman remains deficient. This proves that the Imān increases by performing good deeds and acts of obedience abundantly, and it decreases due to the acts of disobedience.
