Beneficial Knowledge

A woman may know that her menses has ended by one of two signs: 1 – dryness, which is when the bleeding and yellowish and brownish discharges stop. This may be determined by inserting a piece of cotton and the like, and it comes out clean with no trace of what we have mentioned above. 2 – the white discharge, which is a liquid like plaster. Many women do not see this white discharge. If there is dryness, that is sufficient to deem the menses over, and there is no need to wait for the white discharge. Al-Baaji said in  al-Muntaqa Sharh al-Muwatta’  (1/119): What is usually the case is that the end of menses may be verified in two ways: [The first is] the white discharge. ‘Ali ibn Ziyaad narrated from Maalik that it resembles semen. Ibn al-Qaasim narrated from Maalik that is resembles urine. The second thing is dryness. That is when a woman inserts cotton or cloth into her vagina, and it comes out dry with no trace of blood on it. Women vary in that regard. Some of them usually see the w