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Ḥayḍ & nifās calculator

The library’s card on ḥayḍ and nifās, with the comparison done: choose which, and your school, and enter the days of bleeding.

The card: bleeding outside the known cycle is istiḥāḍah, an ailment and not ḥayḍ. She bathes once, then makes fresh wuḍūʾ for each prayer and prays and fasts as normal.

Every rule here is the card’s, as it prints it, and nothing you enter is kept. A habit of your own, or bleeding that changes, is a question for a scholar.

The card
08Ḥayḍ, nifās, istiḥāḍah
A women’s reference. This panel is self-contained and may be given separately.
Duration of ḥayḍ
Ḥ — minimum three days, maximum ten.
S, Ḥb — minimum a day and a night, maximum fifteen.
M — no fixed minimum; maximum fifteen.
The least purity between two cycles is fifteen days.
Nifās — after childbirth
Maximum forty days per Ḥ and Ḥb; sixty per M and S. Should the bleeding stop sooner, she bathes and resumes at once.
Suspended during both
Prayer — and it is not made up afterwards.
Fasting — and it is made up afterwards.
Ṭawāf around the Ka‘bah; intercourse.
All else of Ḥajj is performed as normal.
Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ — “Do all that the pilgrim does, except circle the House.”
Istiḥāḍah — bleeding outside the known cycle is an ailment, not ḥayḍ. She bathes once, then makes fresh wuḍū for each prayer and prays and fasts as normal.
Bukhārī · ṣaḥīḥ — the ḥadīth of Fāṭimah bint Abī Ḥubaysh ـؓ
Scholarly review: pending

This text comes from the Sabīl print library. Its scholarly review is still in progress; every item will carry its reviewers’ names and the date once two scholars have signed it.

Read the card in its title
Enter the days of bleeding to see what the card says of them.