The continuation of bleeding after forty days of post-natal bleeding

Question:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling if the period of post-natal bleeding reaches forty days and the blood does not stop? Do I fast and pray, or not?

Answer:
If the period is completed, then know that fasting and prayer are permissible for you, and you may have relations with your husband. The blood after that is blood of corruption according to the majority of scholars. The blood after the forty days is blood of corruption. You perform wudu for every prayer, you pray, and you may have relations with your husband, and praise be to Allah. This is unless it coincides with the usual period of menstruation; if the usual period comes, you sit out the usual period. As for within the forty days, you do not pray as long as the blood is present. If you become pure within the forty days, whether on the twentieth or thirtieth day, if you become pure, you pray and fast and may have relations with your husband. If the blood returns within the forty days, you leave off the prayer if it returns within the forty days. As for when the forty days are completed, it is not considered menstruation. If it returns after the forty days, you fast and pray and perform wudu for every prayer. Your fast is valid and your prayer is valid, and you may have relations with your husband, because the end of post-natal bleeding is forty days.