The Shortest Term of a Pregnancy

Question :

I was absent from my wife for a whole year and she did not know where I was. After a long time, I returned to her and remained with her for eight months and twenty-five days. She gave birth to a boy during this period of time when I was living with her and I was in doubt concerning the shortfall of five days from the ninth month. Advise me, what should I do?

Answer:

There is no occasion for doubt in a woman giving birth in less than nine months; and the shortest term of a pregnancy is six months, as Allah, Most Glorified says:
"And the bearing of him, and the weaning of him is thirty months"

and He, the Almighty, the All-Powerful says:
"and his weaning is in two years."

This proves that the shortest period of a pregnancy is six months, so if the woman gave birth in the seventh month or afterwards, then there is no doubt in that. And Allah is the Granter of success.

Source:
Ibn Baz
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 5 Page 190

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