certainty is not removed by doubt. If the cessation continues, it becomes clear that it was invalidating, so the purification and the prayer are invalidated by it.

102 - Issue; he said: (And the maximum [duration of] postpartum bleeding is forty days.)

This is the opinion of the majority of the people of knowledge. [Abu 'Isa] (1) al-Tirmidhi said: The people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and those who came after them are in consensus that the woman experiencing postpartum bleeding leaves the prayer for forty days, unless she sees purity before that, in which case she performs ghusl (full ablution) and prays. Abu 'Ubayd said: The community of people is upon this. This is also narrated from 'Umar, Ibn 'Abbas, 'Uthman ibn Abi al-'As (2), 'A'idh ibn 'Amr (3), Anas, and Umm Salamah, [may Allah be pleased with them] (4). Al-Thawri, Ishaq, and the People of Opinion (Ashab al-Ra'y) also held this view. Malik and al-Shafi'i said: Its maximum is sixty days. Ibn 'Aqil narrated from Ahmad a version similar to their opinion; because it was narrated from al-Awza'i that he said: We have a woman who experiences postpartum bleeding for two months. It was also narrated similarly from 'Ata' that he found this. The reference in this matter is to what is actually found. Al-Shafi'i said: The majority of it (5) is forty days. Our evidence is what Abu Sahl Kathir ibn Ziyad narrated from Mussah al-Azdiyyah, from Umm Salamah, who said: The woman experiencing postpartum bleeding would wait during the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, for forty days and forty nights. It was narrated by Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi (6), who said: [This hadith] (7) is not