وَٱلَّٰٓـِٔى يَئِسْنَ مِنَ ٱلْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَآئِكُمْ إِنِ ٱرْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَٰثَةُ أَشْهُرٍۢ وَٱلَّٰٓـِٔى لَمْ يَحِضْنَ ۚ وَأُو۟لَٰتُ ٱلْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَن يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مِنْ أَمْرِهِۦ يُسْرًۭا
And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated. And for those who are pregnant, their term is until they give birth. And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him of his matter ease.
Introduction
This is āyah 4 of Sūrat At-Talaaq (The Divorce), the 99th sūrah in the traditional order of revelation. It was revealed in the Medinan period and sits within Juzʾ 28. Medinan verses often address community life, law, and the building of society.
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Revelation & occasion
- Period
- Medinan
- Order revealed
- 99 of 114
- Surah
- At-Talaaq (65)
(And for such of your women as despair of menstruation�) [65:4]. Said Muqatil: �When the verse (Women who are divorced shall wait, keeping themselves apart�), Kallad ibn al-Nu�man ibn Qays al-Ansari said: �O Messenger of Allah, what is the waiting period of the woman who does not menstruate and the woman who has not menstruated yet? And what is the waiting period of the pregnant woman?� And so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse�. Abu Ishaq al-Muqri� informed us> Muhammad ibn �Abd Allah ibn Hamdun> Makki ibn �Abdan> Abu�l-Azhar> Asbat ibn Muhammad> Mutarrif> Abu �Uthman �Amr ibn Salim who said: �When the waiting period for divorced and widowed women was mentioned in Surah al-Baqarah, Ubayy ibn Ka�b said: �O Messenger of Allah, some women of Medina are saying: there are other women who have not been mentioned!� He asked him: �And who are they?� He said: �Those who are too young [such that they have not started menstruating yet], those who are too old [whose menstruation has stopped] and those who are pregnant�. And so this verse (And for such of your women as despair of menstruation�) was revealed�.
Tafsir
Hafiz Ibn Kathir
Chains of transmission
Oral — isnād
- ~610–632 CERevelation & memorisation
Received by the Prophet ﷺ and preserved by the ḥuffāẓ (memorisers) among the Companions.
- 1st century AHMutawātir transmissionawaiting curation
Carried by mass-transmission through the generations of qurrāʾ.
- TodayLiving chainsawaiting curation
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Written — the manuscript record
- ~650 CEʿUthmānic codicesawaiting curation
The standardised muṣḥaf sent to the great cities (e.g. the Topkapı and Samarqand codices).
- 8th–10th c.Early Ḥijāzī & Kūfic foliosawaiting curation
Surviving leaves in Birmingham, Sanaa, Paris (BnF) and beyond.
- Modern printModern printawaiting curation
The 1924 Cairo edition → today: the standard printed muṣḥaf used worldwide.
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