The Shortest Term of a Pregnancy

Question :

I was absent from my wife for a whole year and she did not know where I was. After a long time, I returned to her and remained with her for eight months and twenty-five days. She gave birth to a boy during this period of time when I was living with her and I was in doubt concerning the shortfall of five days from the ninth month. Advise me, what should I do?

Answer:

There is no occasion for doubt in a woman giving birth in less than nine months; and the shortest term of a pregnancy is six months, as Allah, Most Glorified says:
"And the bearing of him, and the weaning of him is thirty months"

and He, the Almighty, the All-Powerful says:
"and his weaning is in two years."

This proves that the shortest period of a pregnancy is six months, so if the woman gave birth in the seventh month or afterwards, then there is no doubt in that. And Allah is the Granter of success.

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