Caution is Better
Question :
Thirty years ago, my mother was working on a farm and after a hard day's work, she went home at night. At bedtime, while she was breast-feeding her three-month old baby girl, she slept with the baby girl beside her and early in the morning, she found her daughter had died. Bearing in mind that she does not know what caused the death, whether she rolled over onto her during her sleep, or leaned against her while the breast was in her mouth she does not know what caused her death, so what is incumbent upon her?
Answer:
It is more prudent for her to complete a fast of sixty consecutive days, because it would appear from the circumstances that she died because of her, if she knows of no other cause. It is a rule in Islamic Law to act upon what is most probable in cases of uncertainty, in order to fulfill one's obligations from the rights of Allah and the rights of His creatures. May Allah help her to complete it.
Source:
Ibn Baz
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 6 Page 181
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