Menstruation in Islam

This hadith demonstrates that Muhammad gave licence to all forms of spousal intimacy during the period of menstruation except intercourse.

Women are required to perform ghusl or full ritual purification before resuming religious duties or relations upon completion of their menstruation.

[7] Intercourse is also prohibited during menstruation,[6] for the puerperium (the forty days after childbirth), during the daylight hours of the month of Ramadan (i.e. while fasting), and on pilgrimage.

While in the state of ihram at the Kaaba, pilgrims are not allowed to have intercourse, and marriages performed during a pilgrimage are invalid.

[8] Muslim women that are going through menstrual bleeding are exempt from fasting during the Ramadan according to the Hadiths,[9] but have to make them up after menstruation.