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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on prayer and fasting after a miscarriage

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Question:
This sister who asked sent this question, saying: Honorable Shaykh, if I was pregnant for one and a half months and then the fetus fell out without my intention, regarding prayer, fasting, and worship, do I perform them as usual, or are they dropped from me?

Answer:
In principle, the continuation of worship, prayer, and fasting, there is no period for prayer or fasting due to miscarriage, unless the creation of a human being is evident in it. If the creation of a human being is evident in it, such as a hand, a leg, a head, or the like, then she takes the ruling of a woman in post-natal bleeding; she leaves off prayer for forty days as long as the blood continues to come down on her. But if the creation of a human being is not evident in it, then it does not take the ruling of post-natal bleeding; rather, she prays and fasts.
Because this blood is considered the blood for which one prays and fasts. The scholars have estimated the period in which the creation of a human being can be evident as one and eighty days if it enters the third forty. The saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
a human being is put together in the womb of the mother in forty daysان احدكم يجمع خلقه في بطن امه اربعين يوما
Sahih al-Bukhari 3208
and it will be on
like that. And it will be a clot like thatمثل ذلك. ويكون مضغة مثل ذلك
. The third forty. So if it enters the third forty, meaning it completes eighty days, the first forty and the second forty. So if it enters the third forty, this is the time of its formation, the formation of its limbs, and the distinction of the human being was a matter of fact. This is the detail of this issue. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نور على الدرب 253 من المجموعة الثالثة للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (7:20)

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