If a woman dies in childbirth, she is among the martyrs
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. In our village, when a woman dies while giving birth to a child, they say that she will enter Paradise, even if she was abandoning the prayer. Is this correct?
Answer:
This is incorrect. One who abandons the prayer does not enter Paradise. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Muddaththir 74:40-42] meaning in the Fire, [Al-Muddaththir 74:43-44] This indicates that one who abandons the prayer enters Saqar and does not enter Paradise, may Allah protect us from that. As for the claim that if a woman dies in childbirth she is among the people of Paradise, it has come in the hadith that she is a martyr. If a woman dies in childbirth, she is a martyr among the martyrs, and this is if she was maintaining the prayer. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. In our village, when a woman dies while giving birth to a child, they say that she will enter Paradise, even if she was abandoning the prayer. Is this correct?
Answer:
This is incorrect. One who abandons the prayer does not enter Paradise. Allah the Exalted said:
questioning each other (41) About the criminals, (42) [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"
يَتَسَاءَلُونَ عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ(43) They will say, "We were not of those who prayed, (44) Nor did we used to feed the poor.
قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ الْمِسْكِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4587- إذا ماتت المرأة في ولادتها فهي من جملة الشهداء - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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