The ruling on prayer and fasting after an abortion
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Question:
This questioner sent this question, saying: Honorable Shaykh, if I was pregnant for one and a half months and then the fetus fell out without any cause from me, regarding prayer, fasting, and worship, do I make them up as usual, or are they excused for me?
Answer:
The default is that worship, namely prayer and fasting, remains obligatory. So, prayer and fasting are not excused due to a miscarriage unless the fetus has taken on the form of a human being. If it is found to have the form of a human being, such as a hand, a leg, a head, or something else, then she is considered a woman in the post-natal period and leaves off prayer for forty days as long as the blood continues to flow. However, if the form of a human being is not found in it, she is not considered a woman in the post-natal period; rather, she prays and fasts, because this blood is considered the blood of menstruation. The scholars determined that the period in which the form of a human being can be discerned is eighty-one days, if it enters the third forty-day period.
His saying (peace and blessings be upon him) Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih (Darussalam), the third forty days. So when it enters the third forty days, meaning it completes eighty days, that is, the first forty and the second forty, when it enters the third forty days, this is the time of its differentiation, the differentiation of its limbs, and in it the entire human being becomes distinct. Even if it was a mistake. This is the clarification of this issue. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you and bless you.
This questioner sent this question, saying: Honorable Shaykh, if I was pregnant for one and a half months and then the fetus fell out without any cause from me, regarding prayer, fasting, and worship, do I make them up as usual, or are they excused for me?
Answer:
The default is that worship, namely prayer and fasting, remains obligatory. So, prayer and fasting are not excused due to a miscarriage unless the fetus has taken on the form of a human being. If it is found to have the form of a human being, such as a hand, a leg, a head, or something else, then she is considered a woman in the post-natal period and leaves off prayer for forty days as long as the blood continues to flow. However, if the form of a human being is not found in it, she is not considered a woman in the post-natal period; rather, she prays and fasts, because this blood is considered the blood of menstruation. The scholars determined that the period in which the form of a human being can be discerned is eighty-one days, if it enters the third forty-day period.
His saying (peace and blessings be upon him)
None of you
ما احدكمthe creation of one of you is gathered inside his mother in forty days. Then, for a similar period, he is a clot. Then, for a similar period, he is a piece of flesh
يجمع خلقه في بطن أربعين يوما نصفه، ثم يكون علقة مثل ذلك، ثم يكون مضغة مثل ذلكThe presenter:
May Allah reward you and bless you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/253 — archive.org (7:18)
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