The Duration of Postnatal Bleeding

Question:
I am asking about a virgin woman who gave birth to a daughter, and fifty days have passed, yet the blood has not stopped. Does she pray or not?

Answer:
When a woman gives birth, she must leave off the ritual prayer and fasting for the days of postnatal bleeding, meaning the days of the blood. The limit for postnatal bleeding is forty days; this is the preferred opinion, and it is the stronger of the scholars' views. If she becomes pure before that, whether in a month, less, or more, she takes a full ritual bath, prays, fasts, and becomes lawful to her husband. It is not obligatory for her to remain abstaining until the forty days are complete. Rather, whenever she sees purity, whether on the twentieth, tenth, fifteenth, or in a month, she takes a full ritual bath, fasts, and prays, even if she has not completed forty days. It was narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), as reported by Ibn Majah and others, that "he set a limit of forty days for the woman with postnatal bleeding, unless she sees purity before that," but there is weakness in its chain of narration.
So the conclusion: What the scholars hold, and what is the view of the majority of them, is that the limit is forty days. If she sees purity before that, she takes a full ritual bath, prays, and fasts for the remainder of the forty days, and becomes lawful to her husband. If the blood returns to her within the forty days, she sits again, does not pray, and does not fast during the forty days. For example, if she became pure on the twentieth day, and ten days passed with her in a state of purity, and then the blood returned to her on the thirty-first day, she sits, does not pray, does not fast, and does not become lawful to her husband, because the blood returned within its time.
If she becomes pure from it, for example, on the thirty-fifth or thirty-sixth day, she takes a full ritual bath, prays, and fasts for the remainder of the forty days, just as if it were after that. If the blood continues with her and does not stop until she reaches forty days, then at that point she takes a full ritual bath, prays, and fasts, even if the blood remains with her. It is considered blood of corruption, not blood of postnatal bleeding. She takes a full ritual bath, prays, and fasts, and she takes precautions and covers herself with cotton or the like to protect herself from the ritual impurity of the blood until she becomes pure from this blood. This is considered blood of corruption, like the woman with irregular non-menstrual bleeding who prays with it, fasts with it, and becomes lawful to her husband with it. She takes precautions with what she can to protect herself and her clothes from the harm of this blood. This is the preferred opinion.
Some scholars said that it extends to sixty days, and some said that it extends to sixty days for Arab women and to forty days for non-Arab women. All of this has no basis.
The correct view is that its limit is forty days, based on the hadith of Umm Salama (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: It was reported by the people of the Sunan. The meaning in this is that this is its limit. This sitting is the limit, meaning the maximum duration for a woman's postnatal bleeding is forty days, and she may become pure before that.

Question: If fifty days have passed for her and she did not pray?

Answer: She must make up the prayers she left off. If she left off the prayer after the forty days, thinking that it was obligatory for her to remain abstaining, she takes a full ritual bath and makes up what she left off.