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How can one respond to someone who described the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the hadith as "a frenzied man who cannot control himself, even during his wife's menstruation"?

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The scholars have agreed that once a pilgrim performs the Ifadah circumambulation, everything becomes permissible for him, including women. The aforementioned Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, narrated by Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), states that the Prophet (peace be upon him) desired from Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) what a man desires from his wife after she had performed Ifadah on the Day of Sacrifice. His questioning, disapprovingly, "Is she going to detain us?" indicates that he did not know of her menstruation until after he had desired that. When he learned of it, he refrained from what he had intended. It is certain that the Prophet (peace be upon him) did not know she was menstruating when he desired that from her, for it was to him that Allah revealed the verse: {And do not approach them until they purify themselves. But when they have purified themselves, then come to them}. It is obligatory for every Muslim to believe in the Prophet's purity and his immaculacy from all evil.

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