Is a woman required to observe the waiting period if her husband dies while she is in the postpartum period?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: If a woman in the postpartum period loses her husband while she is still in that state, is she required to observe the waiting period?

Answer:
Yes, without a doubt, because she is a wife. If her husband dies while she is in the postpartum period, she observes the waiting period of four months and ten days based on this verse. However, if her husband dies while she is pregnant and she then gives birth, the scholars have differed on whether she exits the waiting period upon delivery, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted, or whether she must complete four months and ten days, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted, to the end of the verse. The scholars differ on this point. If her husband dies while she is pregnant, there is a difference of opinion regarding her case. But if her husband dies after she has given birth, she is required by consensus to observe the waiting period of four months and ten days. Yes.