If a child dies at the time of birth, is it prescribed to name him?

The questioner:
If a woman gives birth to a boy or a girl, and he or she dies at the time of birth, is he or she named or not?

The Shaykh:
If this child had... if the soul was breathed into him, meaning if he had reached four months or more and the soul was breathed into him and he moved, then he is treated as a deceased person: he is washed, shrouded, prayed over, buried, and named. However, if it was before four months and the soul was not breathed into him, he is only buried and has no ruling regarding the funeral rites. If blood came out of his mother after his passing, and it was clear that he had the form of a human being by having reached the stage of the clump (mudghah), meaning he entered the third forty-day period, which is eighty-one days or more, then if his mother had blood after his passing, it is considered post-natal bleeding (nifas). She leaves off the prayer for it for forty days if it continues with her, and if it stops, she performs the full ritual bath (ghusl) and prays. But if it was before that, meaning if it was in the first or second forty-day period, it has no ruling regarding post-natal bleeding; rather, she fasts and prays, and even if she has blood, it is considered a discharge with no ruling. Yes.

The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. If it exceeds eighty days, as you mentioned, Shaykh Salih, is he washed? And is the funeral prayer performed over him?

The Shaykh:
No. In the period between eighty days and his entering the third or fourth forty-day period, one hundred and twenty days, he is not washed and the funeral prayer is not performed over him. He is only washed and the funeral prayer is performed over him if the soul was breathed into him and he died after that, which begins from the completion of four months, one hundred and twenty days.

The presenter:
After one hundred and twenty days. May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.