What is the ruling regarding a woman whose placenta was detached but she did not bleed, and some issued a fatwa allowing her to abstain from prayer during her usual days of menstruation?
The placenta is the sac in which the child is contained, and its detachment after childbirth does not usually stop menstruation. Therefore, a woman does not acquire the rulings of ritual purity from menstruation merely by the detachment of the placenta. However, if "womb" is intended, then its removal without a legitimate necessity is impermissible because it leads to the cessation of progeny. Whoever does so must repent. If the removal of the womb is due to a verifiable harm, then there is no legal impediment to it, and it causes menstruation to cease completely. Accordingly, a woman whose bleeding stops does not take the rulings of a menstruating woman, neither during her customary period nor at any other time, whether the intent is the detachment of the placenta or the removal of the womb, because Islamic law has linked the prohibition of prayer, fasting, and circumambulation () to the presence of blood.
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