It is narrated from Hazrat Umm Kulthum, who is the daughter of Sayyiduna Zaid bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), that she received news that women would send for a lamp to be sold in the middle of the night, and they would see whether they had become pure from menstruation. Umm Kulthum considered this to be a fault and used to say that the women of the Companions did not do this.

Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: If a menstruating woman becomes pure but does not find water, should she perform tayammum? He said: Yes! She should perform tayammum, because her example is like that of a person in a state of janabah. When a person in janabah does not find water, he also performs tayammum.