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If the fetus reaches eighty-eight days, does it take on the rulings of funerals?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A woman from Europe says that her fetus fell out at eighty-eight days. Is this fetus to be shrouded? And is it permissible for her to bury it in the forest?

Answer:
If the fetus reaches four months, it takes on the rulings of funerals, including washing, shrouding, praying over it, and burying it in Muslim graveyards if it is Muslim. If it is less than four months, it does not, because the soul has not been breathed into it. It is wrapped and buried as a simple burial, without washing, because it does not take on the rulings of funerals before four months. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [400 -582] الجنين إذا بلغ ثمانية وتسعون يوما، هل يأخذ أحكام الجنائز؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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