QUESTION

If a pregnant woman dies, are there two janaazah prayers performed or just one?

ANSWER by Shaykh Wasee Allaah 'Abbaas, lecturer at the Ka'bah, instructor at Umm Al-Quraa University in Makkah

If a pregnant woman dies, there is only one janaazah prayer performed. Even if the mother gave birth first, and then they both died afterwards, there is still only one janaazah prayer. This is the case whenever more than one person dies at the same time. [1]

FOOTNOTES

[1] If we had to pray seperate prayers over each person, then imagine the difficulty the Muslims would face in praying over hundreds or even thousands of victims of a flood or some other disaster.

SOURCE

This was translated exclusively for www.bakkah.net from a handwritten answer provided by the shaykh, file no. AAWA017, dated 1423/7/20.

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