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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Does a woman with post-natal bleeding make up the prayers she missed?

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Question:
A woman miscarried in the third month of her pregnancy, so she did not pray for eight days because of the post-natal bleeding. Does she have to make up those prayers?

Answer:
If the fetus had developed into a human form, meaning its limbs had been formed, and then she bled after that, this is post-natal bleeding. She does not have to pray, and it is not permissible for her to pray, because this is post-natal bleeding. However, if the fetus had not developed and its limbs had not been formed, then the blood she experiences is a hemorrhage, not post-natal bleeding, so she has to pray. If she left off the prayer in this case, she must make it up. The dividing line is the state of the fetus: is it formed or not? If she did not see it for the duration, once it reaches eighty-one days, the formation begins. That means it entered the third month, meaning eighty-one days have passed, which is two months and twenty days, and it entered the last ten days of the third month. That is when the formation begins. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تقضي المرأة النفساء الصلوات التي فاتتها؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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