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What is the Islamic ruling concerning a stillborn female infant at six months of gestation prior to a miscarriage: should she be buried or prayed over, and is it permissible to leave her body at the hospital for medical examinations to prevent future health problems for the mother?

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It is impermissible for doctors to tamper with the body of a Muslim female child through dissection and experimentation, though it is permissible to take samples from it for analysis. She is to be buried after being washed, shrouded, and prayed over, even if she was a fetus into whom the soul had been breathed.

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