She gets brownish spotting before the bleeding starts

Question No 98071
She gets brownish spotting before the bleeding starts

Question:

My period does not come naturally, rather I have to take pills to
bring it on. Two months ago I took medicine to bring it on but I did
not get my period. This month I took pills to bring it on, and on
the day when I was supposed to get my period I got some brownish
spotting, which came and went throughout the day, then the next day
I had reddish spotting, then I had bleeding which was like a natural
period.
My question: on the first day on which I had brownish spotting,
should I stop praying or should I pray?.

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

It seems – and Allaah knows best – that as long as this spotting
came at the usual time of the period and was connected to the
bleeding that came afterwards, then it is part of the menses, so you
should stop praying and fasting at that time.

Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: Before my
monthly period, I get a brownish discharge that lasts for five days,
and after that I get the normal bleeding, and the bleeding lasts for
eight days after the first five days. I pray during the five days,
but I am wondering whether I should fast and pray during those days
or not.

He replied: If the five days when you have the brownish discharge
are separate from the days when you bleed, then it is not part of
your period, and you have to pray and fast during those days, and
you should do wudoo' for each prayer because it comes under the same
ruling as urinary incontinence, not menses, so it does not mean that
you cannot pray and fast. But you have to do wudoo' each time until
it ends, like the bleeding of istihaadah.

But if these five days are connected to the menses then they are
part of the menses and should be regarded as part of your period, so
you should not pray or fast.

End quote from Majmoo' Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (10/207).

And Allaah knows best.
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