Mu’adhah ‘Adawiyyah (may Allah have mercy on her) narrates that a woman asked Sayyidah ‘A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her):“Will a woman who was menstruating (and passed away) have to make up the missed prayers?”She replied:“Are you a Haruriyyah (from the settlement of the Khawarij near Kufa)? During the time of the Prophet (peace be upon him), we too would menstruate, and we neither made up the missed prayers nor were we ordered to do so.”

Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Hand me the small mat (from the mosque). She said: I am menstruating. He said: Menstruation is not on your hand.

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite the Qur'an while resting his head in the lap of one of us (his wives), even though she was menstruating.

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), while in the state of i'tikaf, would bring his head close to me from the mosque, and I would be in my chamber, so I would wash and comb his hair, even though I was menstruating.

Sayyida Umm Atiyya (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: Bring out the young unmarried girls and the veiled women, so that they may participate in the Eid prayer and the supplications of the Muslims. However, menstruating women should stay away from the Eid prayer area of the Muslims.

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that when I was menstruating, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would instruct me to tie a waist-wrapper, and then he would lie down with me.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever goes to a soothsayer (fortune-teller) and affirms what he says, or has intercourse with his wife in the anus, or has intercourse with his wife during her menstrual period, then he has nothing to do with the religion which was revealed to Muhammad (the Noble, peace and blessings be upon him).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever has intercourse with his menstruating wife should give one dinar or half a dinar in charity.

This narration is also mentioned from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) with another chain of transmission. Shu’bah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: So-and-so says, Hakam bin ‘Utaybah (may Allah have mercy on him) did not narrate this narration as marfu‘. Someone said to Shu’bah (may Allah have mercy on him): Leave aside what so-and-so says and narrate to us what you have heard. He replied: Even if I were given the lifespan of Nuh (peace be upon him) in exchange for narrating or not narrating this hadith, I would not be pleased.

Abdur Rahman (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Shu’bah (may Allah have mercy on him) did not narrate this hadith as marfu‘, so someone said to him:“You used to narrate this hadith as marfu‘ (why don’t you do so now?)”He replied:“Earlier I was insane, now I am fine.”