{"id":1573,"date":"2019-06-26T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2019-06-26T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:44:49","slug":"does-a-woman-observe-the-iddah-of-death-from-the-time-her-husband-passes-away-or-after-he-is-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Does a woman observe the Iddah of death from the time her husband passes away or after he is buried?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Does a woman observe the Iddah of death from the time her husband passes away or after he is buried?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Q. My question is that if a women&#8217;s husband passes away and he is buried 2 days later;\u00a0 does the iddat of the women begin the day of the\u00a0 death or the day of the burial?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Allah Ta&#8217;ala mentions the law of Iddah in the Quran:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those men who <strong>die<\/strong> amongst you and leave behind wives, they (the wives) must confine themselves (observe Iddah) for four months and ten days.\u201d (Baqarah)<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Iddah period of a wife begins from the death of her husband and not from the time of his burial. <strong>(Shaami 3\/506)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a woman observe the Iddah of death from the time her husband passes away or after he is buried?\u00a0 Q. My question is that if<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janazah","category-laws-of-women","category-talaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}