Each of us (wives of Prophet) had only one clothe in which she would menstruate. Whenever it was smeared with blood, she would moisten it with her saliva and scratch it with the saliva.

Bakkar ibn Yahya said that his grandmother narrated to him: I entered upon Umm Salamah. A woman from the Quraysh asked her about praying with the clothes which a woman wore while she menstruated. Umm Salamah said: We would menstruate in the lifetime of the Apostle of Allah (pbuh). Then each one of us refrained (from prayer) during menstrual period. When she was purified, she would look at the clothe in which she menstruated. If it were smeared with blood, we would wash it and pray with it; if there were nothing in it, we would leave it and that would not prevent us from praying with it (the same clothe). As regards the woman who had plaited hair - sometimes each of us had plaited hair when she washed, she would not undo the hair. She would instead pour three handfuls of water upon her head. When she felt moisture in the roots of her hair, she would rub them. Then she would pour water upon her whole body.

I heard a woman asking the Apostle of Allah (pbuh): What should any of us do with her clothe (in which she menstruated) when she becomes purified? Can she pray in that (clothe)? He said: She should see; if she finds blood in it, she should scratch it with some water and (in case of doubt) sprinkle upon it (some water) and pray so long as she does not find (any blood).

A woman asked the Apostle of Allah (pbuh): Apostle of Allah, what do you think if the clothe of any of us is smeared with the blood of menstruation; what should she do? He said: If (the clothe of) any of you is smeared with the blood of menstruation, she should scratch it; then she should sprinkle water upon it and then she may pray.

This tradition has been transmitted by Hisham through a different chain of narrators to the same effect: Rub it off (with a stone), then scratch it (with finger) by pouring water, then sprinkle water upon it.

I asked the Prophet (pbuh) about the blood of menstruation on the clothe. He said: Erase it off with a piece of wood and then wash it away with water and the leaves of the lotetree.

One of us would have a shirt in which she would menstruate and in it she became sexually defiled. Then if she ever saw any drop of blood in it, she would rub it off by applying her saliva.

Khawlah, daughter of Yasar came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: Apostle of Allah, I have only one clothe and I menstruate in it, how should I do? He said: When you are purified, wash it and pray in it. She asked: If the blood is not removed, (then what)? He said: It is enough for you to wash the blood, its mark will not do any harm to you.

Mu'awiyah ibn AbuSufyan asked his sister Umm Habibah, the wife of the Prophet (pbuh): Would the apostle of Allah (pbuh) pray in the clothe in which he had an intercourse? She said: Yes, when he would not see any impurity in it.

The Apostle of Allah (pbuh) would not pray in our wrappers or in our quilts. Ubaydullah said: My father (Mu'adh) doubted this.

The Prophet (pbuh) would not pray in our quilts. Hammad said: I heard Sa'id b. Abi Sadaqah say: I asked Muhammad (b. Sarin) about it. He did not narrate it to me, but said: I heard it a long time ago and I do not know from whom I heard it. I do not know whether I heard it from a trustworthy person or not. Make an inquiry about it.

The Prophet (pbuh) prayed on a sheet of cloth partly put on by one of his wives who was menstruating. He was praying while (a part of) it was upon him.

The Apostle of Allah (pbuh) would pray at night while I lay by his side during my menstrual period. A sheet of clothe would be partly on me and partly on him.

Hammam b. al-Harith reported, he had a sexual dream when he was staying with 'Aisha. The slave-girl of 'Aisha saw him when he was washing the mak of defilement, or he was washing his clothe. She informed 'Aisha who said: He witnessed me rubbing off the semen from the clothe of the Apostle of Allah (pbuh). Abu Dawud said: Al-A'mash narrated it as narrated by al-Hakam.

I used to rub off the semen from the clothe of the Apostle of Allah (pbuh). He then would pray in it. Abu Dawud said: Mughairah, Abu Ma'shar and wasil also narrated it to the same effect.