Delivering a Dead Fetus and the Ruling on Post-Natal Bleeding After Abortion
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Question:
One of the brothers is asking. He says: My wife is five months pregnant, and they performed X-rays, so the doctors determined that the fetus died two days ago, and the fetus must be removed. Do we do that? And does the wife have post-natal bleeding for forty days?
Answer:
If it is confirmed that the child has died, meaning it reached four months and the soul was breathed into it, and then it died, then it is removed by medical means. It is removed by medical means because there is no benefit in its remaining; rather, its remaining is harmful to the mother, so it is removed by medical means. As for post-natal bleeding, if the pregnancy reached one hundred and eighty days—one hundred and eighty days, meaning two months and twenty-one days—and blood came out after the miscarriage, then it is post-natal bleeding, so you leave off the prayer because of it, even if it continues for forty days. But if it was less than one hundred and eighty days, then it is bleeding from a wound, and you do not leave off the prayer because of it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh Salih, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and we ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to benefit us all with what we have heard.
One of the brothers is asking. He says: My wife is five months pregnant, and they performed X-rays, so the doctors determined that the fetus died two days ago, and the fetus must be removed. Do we do that? And does the wife have post-natal bleeding for forty days?
Answer:
If it is confirmed that the child has died, meaning it reached four months and the soul was breathed into it, and then it died, then it is removed by medical means. It is removed by medical means because there is no benefit in its remaining; rather, its remaining is harmful to the mother, so it is removed by medical means. As for post-natal bleeding, if the pregnancy reached one hundred and eighty days—one hundred and eighty days, meaning two months and twenty-one days—and blood came out after the miscarriage, then it is post-natal bleeding, so you leave off the prayer because of it, even if it continues for forty days. But if it was less than one hundred and eighty days, then it is bleeding from a wound, and you do not leave off the prayer because of it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh Salih, and may Allah bless you and your knowledge, and we ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to benefit us all with what we have heard.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/243 — archive.org (17:12)
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