"Narrated `Aisha:\n\nFatima bint Abi Hubaish said to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), \"O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I do not become clean (from bleeding). Shall I give up my prayers?\" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied: \"No, because it is from a blood vessel and not the menses. So when the real menses begins give up your prayers and when it (the period) has finished wash the blood off your body (take a bath) and offer your prayers.\"\n\nNarrated Asma' bint Abi Bakr:\n\nA woman asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), \"O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What should we do, if the blood of menses falls on our clothes?\" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, \"If the blood of menses falls on the garment of anyone of you, she must take hold of the blood spot, rub it, and wash it with water and then pray in (with it).\"\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nWhenever anyone of us got her menses, she, on becoming clean, used to take hold of the blood spot and rub the blood off her garment, and pour water over it and wash that portion thoroughly and sprinkle water over the rest of the garment. After that she would pray in (with) it.\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nOnce one of the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) did I`tikaf along with him and she was getting bleeding in between her periods. She used to see the blood (from her private parts) and she would perhaps put a dish under her for the blood. (The sub-narrator `Ikrima added, `Aisha once saw the liquid of safflower and said, \"It looks like what so and so used to have.\")\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\n\"One of the wives of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) joined him in I`tikaf and she noticed blood and yellowish discharge (from her private parts) and put a dish under her when she prayed.\"\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nOne of the mothers of the faithful believers (i.e. the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ)) did I`tikaf while she was having bleeding in between her periods.\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nNone of us had more than a single garment and we used to have our menses while wearing it. Whenever it got soiled with blood of menses we used to apply saliva to the blood spot and rub off the blood with our nails.\n\nNarrated Um-`Atiya:\n\nWe were forbidden to mourn for a dead person for more than three days except in the case of a husband for whom mourning was allowed for four months and ten days. During that time we were not allowed to put kohl in our eyes or to use perfumes or to put on colored clothes except a dress made of `Asr, a kind of Yemen cloth, very coarse and rough. We were allowed very light perfumes at the time of taking a bath after menses and also we were forbidden to go with the funeral procession.\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nA woman asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about the bath which is taken after finishing from the menses. The Prophet (ﷺ) told her what to do and said, \"Purify yourself with a piece of cloth scented with musk.\" The woman asked, \"How shall I purify myself with it?\" He said, \"Subhan Allah! Purify yourself (with it).\" I pulled her to myself and said, \"Rub the place soiled with blood with it.\"\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nAn Ansari woman asked the Prophet (ﷺ) how to take a bath after finishing from the menses. He replied, \"Take a piece of cloth perfumed with musk and clean the private parts with it thrice.\" The Prophet (ﷺ) felt shy and turned his face. So I pulled her to me and told her what the Prophet (ﷺ) meant.\n\nNarrated Anas bin Malik:\n\nThe Prophet (ﷺ) said, \"At every womb Allah appoints an angel who says, 'O Lord! A drop of semen, O Lord! A clot. O Lord! A little lump of flesh.' Then if Allah wishes to complete its creation, the angel asks, 'O Lord! Will it be a male or female, a wretched or a blessed, and how much will his provision be? And what will his age be?' So all that is written while the child is still in the mother's womb.\""