Does the prescribed waiting period ('Iddah) for a divorced woman depend on menstruation?

Chapter on Menstruation

Al-Mughni

Book of Purification

Book 2 · Issue 10 · Bab 12

Open in Qurani

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The waiting period (*Iddah*) for a divorced woman and similar cases does not conclude except with menstruation, based on the Quranic statement: “Divorced women shall wait by themselves for three periods [of menstruation]” (Quran 2:228).