Is a woman considered to be in the post-natal bleeding state if the fetus is aborted and is forty days old?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good for this occasion, Shaykh Salih. If we asked about the mother in the situation mentioned, if the fetus is forty days old or more, does her ruling become the ruling of post-natal bleeding, given the situation mentioned?

Answer:
The aborted fetus does not carry the ruling of post-natal bleeding unless it reaches the stage of the lump of flesh and the formation of features. Less than that does not reach that stage in duration; one hundred and eighty-one days is the minimum, meaning when it enters the third forty-day period. At that point, the stage of the lump of flesh and the formation of features begins. If it is aborted at one hundred and eighty-one days or more, and she has blood after its abortion, then it is considered like a sitting period for her, just as the ordinary woman in post-natal bleeding sits for forty days. If she does not have blood, then she does not sit. As for if it is before one hundred and eighty-one days, then she does not sit, and she does not leave off the prayer or the fasting. If she has blood, then this blood is considered a discharge, not post-natal bleeding; she does not leave off the fasting or the prayer because of it. Yes.