Slight bleeding

[muslimah]

Assalamu alaiqum,

Does slight bleeding from gums or a minor cut invalidate fast? Or it just invalidates wudhu?

Jazakullah Khair

[Aslam AbuIsmaeel]

Assalamu alaikum

Bleeding by cupping oneself breaks fast according to some scholars of Islam whereas others hold that it does not as the ruling was abrogated.  This is the stronger of the two opinions, as I explained in my Ramadan Knights notes.

Based on this, bleeding from gums does not invalidate the fast.  Try to spit out the blood as well.

As for the wudu, some scholars believe bleeding from any part of the body breaks the wudu and makes it invalid.  They do make an exception for little bleeding from a broken pimple that it does not break fast.  However most scholars hold that it is only bleeding of menstruation or post child birth bleeding from the woman's vaginal passage that breaks the fast as that is what the texts of Quran and hadith point to.  As for bleeding from elsewhere in the body - little or a lot, the texts do not support that and this is the strongest view, Allah knows best.

So, bleeding from gums does not break wudu nor fast according to the opinion of the scholars that is more strongly supported by the Quran and authentic Hadith, Allah knows best.  If you were to follow the other opinion though, then some of those scholars make an exception for minor bleed that it does not break fast or wudu but a lot of it does.

Wassalamu alaikum

[Aslam AbuIsmaeel]

Assalamu alaikum

Just to make that above post clear, bleeding from gums in itself does not break the fast.

The person should try to stop swallowing it, but if he/she swallows the blood, it breaks the fast.  But if that was completely unintentionally, then it does not break the fast, and Allah knows best.