The fetus was aborted at nine weeks: does she pray and fast?

Question : In your case. Brother Muhammad, this questioner says that this woman remembers that she was nine weeks pregnant and then miscarried. Does this questioner, O Shaykh, pray and fast?

Answer : The answer applies to her and to others: if a pregnant woman miscarries her fetus, and it was before the soul was breathed into it, then the blood is blood of corruption, not post-natal bleeding. She is not required to pray, and it is not permissible for her husband to have intercourse with her. She is like those in a state of purity, except that as long as the blood is on her, she does not perform wudu for prayer until the time for prayer enters. When the time for prayer enters, she washes the place of the blood, then protects herself with a pad, then performs wudu—meaning she renews it—and prays. This is the answer for her and for others. However, if the human form has become apparent in it, and it is not possible for that to become apparent before the completion of eighty days,
then if the human form has become apparent in it and then it falls, the blood that affects her is post-natal bleeding. She leaves off prayer and fasting because of it, and she does not have intercourse with her husband, because she is in a state of post-natal bleeding until it stops.