Case: a girl has an established qualifying menstrual indication before completing 15 lunar years.
She is not treated as prepubescent merely because the fallback age has not arrived; the qualifying sign, not the age limit, controls.
The same principle applies to a boy with established seminal emission.
The indication must actually satisfy the juristic criteria; not every bodily change proves puberty.
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An earlier sign overrides the fallback age
Kitab al-Hajr: Signs of Puberty, Age Thresholds, and the Muraahiq’s Claim
Case: a girl has an established qualifying menstrual indication before completing 15 lunar years.
She is not treated as prepubescent merely because the fallback age has not arrived; the qualifying sign, not the age limit, controls.
The same principle applies to a boy with established seminal emission.
The indication must actually satisfy the juristic criteria; not every bodily change proves puberty.