2.10 Age of Menstruation
٢۔١٠ بَابُ السِّنِّ الَّتِي وُجِدَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ حَاضَتْ فِيهَا
Among what Abu ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ authorized me to transmit from him, from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, from al-Rabīʿ, from al-Shāfiʿī, who said: “The earliest I have heard of women menstruating are women in Tihāmah; they menstruate at nine years of age.”
فِيمَا أَجَازَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ رِوَايَتَهُ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمِّ عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ عَنِ الشَّافِعِيِّ قَالَ: أَعْجَلُ مَنْ سَمِعْتُ بِهِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ يَحِضْنَ نِسَاءٌ بِتِهَامَةَ يَحِضْنَ لِتِسْعِ سِنِينَ