The ruling on fasting Ramadan for a woman whose post-natal bleeding stops after ten days

Question:
In the last of this questioner's questions, she says: Your Eminence, regarding a woman who gives birth ten days before Ramadan, and her bleeding stops, is it permissible for her to fast?

Answer:
Yes, if she gives birth and her post-natal bleeding stops, she fasts, even if only ten days or fifteen days have passed. Whenever the blood stops and she sees purity, she takes a full ritual bath and prays, and she fasts, even if only ten days, or fifteen days, or twenty days have passed. However, if the blood continues with her, she remains without praying or fasting until she completes forty days. When the forty days are completed, she takes a full ritual bath, prays, and fasts. The blood after the forty days does not prevent her; it becomes blood of corruption after the forty days. So, if the forty days are completed, she has completed the forty days, and she has not become pure, she takes a full ritual bath, prays, and protects herself from the blood with cotton or the like, and performs the ablution for every prayer. This is because the limit of post-natal bleeding is forty days; this is its limit. So, the blood after the forty days is blood of corruption, unless it coincides with the usual menstrual period. If it coincides with the custom, she sits as is the custom. Yes.

The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.