the Almighty: "If you associate partners with God, your work will surely be rendered void" (9). Thus, he becomes like the original disbeliever in all his rulings. The second view is that he is required to make up for the acts of worship he missed during his apostasy and his Islam prior to his apostasy, and he is not required to repeat the Hajj, because work is only rendered void by associating partners with God upon death, according to His saying, the Almighty: "And whoever among you turns back from his religion and dies while he is a disbeliever, then those are the ones whose deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter" (10). Thus, He stipulated both matters for the rendering of deeds void. This is the madhhab of al-Shāfiʿī, because the apostate acknowledged the obligation of acts of worship upon him, believed in that, and was capable of taking the means to perform them, so they became binding upon him, like one who is in a state of ritual impurity (muḥdith). If an apostate woman menstruates, she is not required to make up the prayer during the time of her menstruation, because prayer is not obligatory upon her in that state. The judge (al-Qāḍī) mentioned a third narration: that he is not required to make up what he missed during his apostasy, because he missed it in a state in which he was not addressed by it due to his disbelief, but he must make up what he missed during his Islam before the apostasy, because it was obligatory upon him and he was addressed by it before the apostasy, so the obligation remained upon him as it was. He said: This is the madhhab. It is the statement of Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥāmid. According to this, he is not required to restart the Hajj if he had already performed it, because his liability was discharged from it by his performance before the apostasy, so he does not become occupied with it after that, like the prayer he performed during his Islam, for if apostasy were to nullify his Hajj and invalidate it, it would invalidate all his acts of worship performed before his apostasy. Section: As for the discerning child, it is not obligatory upon him according to the most correct of the two narrations. There is another narration from him that it is obligatory upon whoever reaches ten years of age, and we will mention that, if God the Almighty wills. According to our statement that it is not