1)if somebody starts bleeding before he has prayed asr and the bleeding does not stop, at what point does he just pray?does he delay right till before maghrib or just before the sun changes colour? 2)Also if it is a mouth bleed is he excused for swallowing the blood whilst praying?3)final question related to aboove point, what if hes fasting? (there is an answer about this final question, buts its in the shaafi fiqh section, not sure if same ruling applies with hanafis)

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

1. If bleeding starts during the time of a prayer, one waits until the end of the prayer time (or until just before the disliked time, in the case of Asr) in hope that the bleeding stop, and then prays immediately after performing wudu (and striving to take the means to stop or minimize the bleeding).

If one bleeds in such a case after performing wudu, then if the bleeding lasts the entire subsequent prayer time one will be considered someone with a chronic excuse and that first prayer will be valid. If the bleeding stops in the second prayer time, then one will have to repeat that first prayer.

[For details, Search the SunniPath QA (http://qa.sunnipath.com) for “chronic excuses”]

2. Blood that flows in the mouth invalidates wudu (and therefore prayer). In the case of chronic excuses, this would be excused but would would have to try to minimize swallowing of blood.

3. While fasting, one would have to spit out excess blood.

And Allah alone gives success.

Faraz Rabbani