Question Summary:
What can a woman recite from the Quran during Haydh?

Question Detail:

What can a woman recite from the Quran during Haydh?

Answer :

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

A Haaidhah (woman in haydh), a Nufasa (woman in nifas) or Junubi (person in the state of major ritual impurity) cannot recite the Qur’an with the intention of recitation, neither a complete verse, nor a part of one. This is due to the following hadith: 

  عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : لَا تَقْرَأْ الْحَائِضُ وَلَا الْجُنُبُ شَيْئًا مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ.

Translation: It is narrated from Abdullah ibn Umar (RA) from the Prophet ﷺ that he said: ‘A menstruating women and a Junubi should not recite anything from the Quran.’

However, there are exceptions to the above ruling:

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Faizal Dhada

Student, Darul Iftaa

UK

Checked and Approved by,

Mufti Ebrahim Desai.