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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The waiting period of a pregnant woman who has a miscarriage

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Question:
The questioner says: If the wife has a miscarriage, does she complete the forty days and then meet her husband? Is that permissible? And when does the bleeding stop?

Answer:
If the pregnancy has reached eighty-one days—eighty-one days, meaning it has entered the third forty-day period—then at that point the soul is breathed into it and its organs are formed. This has the ruling of a major miscarriage regarding the waiting period. The wife must observe the waiting period for post-natal bleeding as long as the blood continues to flow, up to forty days, because she is in a state of post-natal bleeding. However, if the miscarriage occurs before eighty days, in the second forty-day period, and blood flows, it is impurity and not post-natal bleeding. She is considered pure, and her husband may have intercourse with her because she is pure, but only during the periods when no blood is flowing from her. Yes.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/008 — archive.org (4:48)

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