She Was Inattentive to Her Small Daughter and it Resulted in Her Killing Herself
Question :
A woman had a two year-old daughter. She was sitting with her daughter in the sitting room with a pot of coffee and a flask of tea. The little girl went to play and her mother looked away from the direction in which she had gone, while she was washing the coffee cups. Suddenly, the little girl came to the coffee pot and seized it and it fell on her. The coffee was extremely hot, and when the little girl fell, the coffee entered her intestines and after twenty-four hours, the daughter died. So the woman is asking: Is there any atonement incumbent upon her or not? And what is the atonement for that?
Answer:
The questioner is more knowledgeable regarding the circumstances and the conditions surrounding the matter. If she feels certain that she was negligent in leaving the girl so that the accident took place, and the mother was the cause of that, then she must make atonement. That atonement is to free a believing slave; and if she is not able to do so, then she must fast for two consecutive months.
Source:
The Permanent Committee
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 6 Page 179
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