I am pregnant and we are divorced. When does my iddah end?

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   Qurʾān, al-Ṭalāq 65:4

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   وَٱلَّـٰٓـِٔى يَئِسْنَ مِنَ ٱلْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَآئِكُمْ إِنِ ٱرْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَـٰثَةُ أَشْهُرٍ وَٱلَّـٰٓـِٔى لَمْ يَحِضْنَ ۚ وَأُو۟لَـٰتُ ٱلْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَن يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مِنْ أَمْرِهِۦ يُسْرًا

   And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated. And for those who are pregnant, their term is until they give birth. And whoever fears Allāh - He will make for him of his matter ease.

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   Ibn Qudāmah, al-Mughnī (Ḥanbalī), 8:117

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   وَلَوْ طَلَّقَهَا، أَوْ مَاتَ عَنْهَا، وَهِيَ حَامِلٌ مِنْهُ، لَمْ تَنْقَضِ عِدَّتُهَا إلَّا بِوَضْعِ الْحَمْلِ، أَمَةً كَانَتْ أَوْ حُرَّةً أَجْمَعَ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ فِي جَمِيعِ الْأَعْصَارِ، عَلَى أَنَّ الْمُطَلَّقَةَ الْحَامِلَ تَنْقَضِي عِدَّتُهَا بِوَضْعِ حَمْلِهَا

   "If he divorced her, or died, while she was pregnant by him, her iddah does not end except by the delivery of the pregnancy, whether she is enslaved or free." The people of knowledge in every age are in consensus that the pregnant divorced woman's iddah ends with the delivery of her pregnancy.

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   al-Nawawī, Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn (Shāfiʿī), p. 254

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   عدة الحامل بوضعه بشرط نسبته إلى ذي العدة ولو احتمالا كمنفي بلعان وانفصال كله حتى ثاني توأمين

   The iddah of a pregnant woman ends with the delivery, on condition that the child is attributed to the man whose iddah it is, even possibly, as with a child he denied by liʿān; and on condition that all of it has left her, even the second of twins.

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   al-Dardīr, al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr ʿalā Mukhtaṣar Khalīl, with Ḥāshiyat al-Dasūqī (Mālikī), 2:474

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   (وَعِدَّةُ الْحَامِلِ) حُرَّةً أَوْ أَمَةً (فِي وَفَاةٍ أَوْ طَلَاقٍ وَضْعُ حَمْلِهَا كُلِّهِ) بَعْدَ الطَّلَاقِ أَوْ الْوَفَاةِ وَلَوْ بِلَحْظَةٍ لَا بَعْضِهِ وَاحِدًا كَانَ أَوْ مُتَعَدِّدًا … (وَإِنْ) كَانَ الْحَمْلُ (دَمًا اجْتَمَعَ) وَعَلَامَةُ كَوْنِهِ حَمْلًا أَنَّهُ إذَا صُبَّ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءُ الْحَارُّ لَمْ يَذُبْ

   The iddah of the pregnant woman, free or enslaved, in death or divorce, is the delivery of all of her pregnancy, even a moment after the divorce or death — not part of it, whether one child or more. Even if the pregnancy was a gathered clot of blood; the sign that it was a pregnancy is that it does not dissolve when hot water is poured on it.

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   Ibn ʿĀbidīn, Radd al-Muḥtār ʿalā al-Durr al-Mukhtār (Ḥanafī), 3:511

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   (وَ) فِي حَقِّ (الْحَامِلِ) مُطْلَقًا وَلَوْ أَمَةً، أَوْ كِتَابِيَّةً، أَوْ مِنْ زِنًا بِأَنْ تَزَوَّجَ حُبْلَى مِنْ زِنًا وَدَخَلَ بِهَا ثُمَّ مَاتَ، أَوْ طَلَّقَهَا تَعْتَدُّ بِالْوَضْعِ جَوَاهِرُ الْفَتَاوَى (وَضْعُ) جَمِيعِ (حَمْلِهَا)

   For the pregnant woman, in every case, even an enslaved or Christian or Jewish wife, or one pregnant from zinā whom he married and consummated with, then died or divorced: she observes the iddah until delivery — the delivery of all of her pregnancy.