The ruling on prayer and fasting after a miscarriage

Question:
May Allah reward you with good. This sister who asked sent this question, saying: Honorable Shaykh, if I was pregnant for a month and a half, and then the fetus was aborted without my intention, regarding prayer, fasting, and worship, do I make them up as usual, or is she asking about me?

Answer:
The default is that the state of worship, i.e., prayer and fasting, remains, so do not leave off prayer and fasting because of the abortion unless it is clear that it has the form of a human being. If it is clear that it has the form of a human being, such as a hand, a leg, a head, or something else, then it takes the ruling of a fetus in terms of prayer. She does not pray for forty days as long as the blood continues to flow from her. However, if the form of a human being is not clear in it, it does not make you a woman in post-natal bleeding; rather, you pray and fast because it has not reached the stage of a soul. It is considered that if it has not reached that stage, you pray and fast. The scholars have indicated that the period in which the form of a human being can be distinguished is one of eighty days. If it enters the third forty-day period, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , the third forty-day period. And if it enters the third forty-day period, that means it has completed eighty days, i.e., the first forty days and the second forty days. If it enters the third forty-day period, this is the time for the formation of its organs and the distinction of the human form in it. If that is the case, this is the detail in this issue.