The iddah duration for a women after getting khula will be completing three menstrual cycles

Question

My question is that:

The iddah duration for a women after getting khula will be completing three menstrual cycles (if she is not conceived). My question is that is there any difference in the duration of iddah’ for a women who is getting delays in her menstrual cycles? Sometimes the delays are up to 20 or 30 days. By delays I mean that if she gets the periods and then gets purification then the next periods are not on time rather there is a delay of 20 or sometimes 30 days apart from the normal duration of a period to start.

Will she be observing the same duration as iddah’ or there is any other rule in such conditions?

 

Answer

 

Muhtaram / Muhtaramah

 

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

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

A woman after making Khula’ will sit in Iddah for three complete menstrual cycles if she is a woman who gets her periods. If a girl is very young or due to old age and she does not get her periods at all, her Iddah will be calculated at three months.

(Al-Hidāyah, Vol.2, Pg.404, Shirka)[1]
(Al-Hidāyah, Vol.2, Pg.422, Shirka)[2]
(Fatāwā Hindiyyah, Vol.1, Pg526, Rashīdiyyah)[3]

In such a case where a woman experiences delays between her periods, her Iddah will only terminate after three complete menstrual cycles even though it may surpass three or four months. The Iddah of such a woman will not terminate after three months.

And Allah knows best
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