The ruling on the prayer of a woman who miscarried before the completion of forty days

The questioner:
This questioner says: A woman miscarried, and the fetus was about two months and ten days old. Does she pray, or does she stop praying?

The Shaykh:
Two months and how many days?

The questioner:
It was ten days.

The Shaykh:
That means seventy days. She does not leave off the prayer for this; it is bleeding, not post-natal bleeding. Post-natal bleeding begins from eighty-one days, if the pregnancy enters the third forty-day period, when the organs are formed and it has passed the stage of a clot. If it drops at eighty-one days, meaning the beginning of the third forty-day period, and blood comes after that, it is post-natal bleeding. She leaves off the prayer and fasting for it for forty days until it stops. As for before eighty-one days, the second forty-day period, this is not considered post-natal bleeding; it is considered bleeding. Do not leave off the prayer and fasting for it. Yes.