Is the funeral prayer performed for a fetus if it is delivered after four months?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If a fetus is delivered from its mother’s womb after four months, but the doctor says it has been dead in her womb for a long time, is the funeral prayer prescribed for this fetus or not?

Answer:
If it is delivered after four months, that is the time when the soul is likely to have been breathed into it, so the funeral prayer is performed for it. Even if the doctor says it has been dead for a long time, it is not called dead unless the soul has been breathed into it. Before that, its life is a life of growth, not merely a life of growth, and not a life of religious accountability. So the funeral prayer is performed for it; it is washed, shrouded, prayed over, named, and it has the rulings of a newborn. Yes.