The Stronger Position on Making Up Fasting for the Deceased
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I work as a teacher at one of the universities, and I have a friend who works in the university library.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: I work as a teacher at one of the universities, yes, and I have a friend who works in the university library.
The Shaykh:
I do not hear what you are saying; the microphone is mixing up the audio. Yes.
The questioner:
Especially in the month of Ramadan, so what is the stronger position among the three opinions?
The Shaykh:
The stronger position, and Allah knows best, is what the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim held: that what is obligatory by the original law of the Shari'ah is not made up, whereas what is obligatory by a vow is made up for the deceased. This is because there is a narration specifying the one who dies with fasting from a vow upon him, and Imam Ahmad held this view. Yes, and Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I work as a teacher at one of the universities, and I have a friend who works in the university library.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: I work as a teacher at one of the universities, yes, and I have a friend who works in the university library.
The Shaykh:
I do not hear what you are saying; the microphone is mixing up the audio. Yes.
The questioner:
Especially in the month of Ramadan, so what is the stronger position among the three opinions?
The Shaykh:
The stronger position, and Allah knows best, is what the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim held: that what is obligatory by the original law of the Shari'ah is not made up, whereas what is obligatory by a vow is made up for the deceased. This is because there is a narration specifying the one who dies with fasting from a vow upon him, and Imam Ahmad held this view. Yes, and Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family.
Source
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