فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًۭا مَّنسِيًّۭا
Fa ajaaa 'ahal makhaadu ilaa jiz'in nakhlati qaalat yaa laitanee mittu qabla haazaa wa kuntu nasyam mansiyyaa
And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

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And the birth pangs the pains of childbirth brought her to the trunk of the palm-tree that she may support herself against it and then she gave birth the conception formation of the foetus and delivery all took place within one hour. She said ‘O yā is used to call attention to something would that I had died before this affair and become a forgotten thing beyond recall!’ a thing abandoned which no one knows or mentions.

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Sunan Ibn Majah #1343It was narrated from Mu’adh bin Jabal that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:Sahih
“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! The miscarried fetus will drag his mother by his umbilical cord to Paradise, if she (was patient and) sought reward (for her loss).”
Sunan an-Nasa'i #4836It was narrated form Al-Mughirahbin shu'bah that:
a man of Hudhail had two wives, and one of them threw a tent pole at the o0ther and caused her to miscarry. It was said: "What do you think of one who neither ate nor drank, or shouted nor cried (at the moment of birth)?" he said: (Rhyming verse like the verse of the Bedouins. "And the Messenger of Allah ruled that a make or female slave shouted be given (as dihahj) for him (the unborn child), to be paid but the'Aqila h of the woman.
Sahih al-Bukhari #4262Narrated Anas:Sahih
When the ailment of the Prophet (ﷺ) got aggravated, he became unconscious whereupon Fatima said, "Oh, how distressed my father is!" He said, "Your father will have no more distress after today." When he expired, she said, "O Father! Who has responded to the call of the Lord Who has invited him! O Father, whose dwelling place is the Garden of Paradise (i.e. Al-Firdaus)! O Father! We convey this news (of your death) to Gabriel." When he was buried, Fatima said, "O Anas! Do you feel pleased to throw earth over Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)?"
Sunan Abu Dawud #3196Narrated Samurah bin Jundab:Sahih
I prayed behing the Prophet (ﷺ) over a woman who died in childbirth, and he stood opposite her waist.
Sahih al-Bukhari #896Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah:Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to stand by a stem of a date-palm tree (while delivering a sermon). When the pulpit was placed for him we heard that stem crying like a pregnant she-camel till the Prophet (ﷺ) got down from the pulpit and placed his hand over it.

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