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If one sees a small amount of blood at the end of a prayer time, how is one to know whether there will be other blood later? Even if one was to check 2 minutes before the end of the prayer time and see blood, one doesn’t pray, but the blood might not come back after, which means that during these 2 minutes, that prayer had become compulsory on one but one did not pray it. Is one sinful in that case?
In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful,
One is not sinful because this time is counted as part of one’s menstruation, even though no blood had exited.
It is mentioned in al-Fiqh al-Hanafi fi Thawbihi al-Jadid:
“The time that is sufficient for a purificatory bath (ghusl) including:
1. preparing water (f: and heating it up)
2. Taking off one’s clothes (f: before entering the bath)
3. and putting on one’s clothes (f: after the bath),
is regarded as part of the menstruation period.”
Furthermore, “if one reaches a period in the prayer time that allows one to make the opening invocation, which is to say ‘Allah’ only according to Imam Abu Hanifa, after having performed ghusl, then one will have to make up the prayer (f: if missed).” [Al-Fiqh al-Hanafi fi Thawbihi al-Jadid, volume 1]
To summarize, if there was not enough time after the blood stopped to prepare water, take off one’s clothes, perform ghusl, put one’s clothes on, and make the opening takbir (i.e. saying ‘Allah’), then one will not have to make up that prayer and one is not sinful. Otherwise, one will have to make it up if missed, and one will be sinful.
And Allah knows best
Fadi Qutub