Spotting and Menstruation

Q: I have a few questions regarding Haidh and Ghusl. Please answer according to the Hanafi Math-hab. When I become clean from haidh, I take a ghusl, but after a few hours, maybe the next salaah, I notice some spotting. Should I take another ghusl?
At times I take up to 3 baths, because the spotting occurs after a every few hours. What is the ruling regarding spotting? My haidh will stop completely; I will be clean from maybe the night rightthrough to morning, and then bath, but the spotting occurs again.

A: In terms of haidh rulings, spotting is regarded as normal bleeding. Any spotting that is seen after haidh has ended must be regarded as part of that haidh. In other words, the spotting means your haidh has not yet ended. Some difficulty will be experienced because you won't know exactly when the haidh ends and that's why you might have to make ghusl several times. This is a problem many women face. If this spotting carries on after 10 days then consider it as istihaadha. Then your haidh will actually be the period of the previous month, whatever number of days that was, and the rest of the days will be istihaadha. And if you don't remember the previous month's cycle then your haidh will be full 10 days. So if there is spotting after 10 days, have a bath and thereafter just make wudhu for every salah till the spotting stops.