The 'Aqiqah for a Stillborn Child

Question:
The questioner says: He says that one of the brothers told him that his wife became pregnant in the eighth month and gave birth to a dead child. He asked one of the students of knowledge about the 'aqiqah, and he was issued a ruling that he did not have to perform the 'aqiqah. A year and a half has passed since this event, so what is required of him now?

Answer:
If he reached four months, when the soul was breathed into him, and then he died in his mother's womb and was born dead, meaning that the 'aqiqah is prescribed for him. The 'aqiqah is a recommended practice (sunnah) for the living and the dead; that is, the 'aqiqah is prescribed for him because the soul was breathed into him and life entered him, and then he died afterward, just as if he died after his birth. Is it not the case that if he died after his birth, the 'aqiqah would be performed for him? Likewise, if he died before his birth. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,