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What is the stronger opinion among the scholars regarding making up fasts on behalf of a deceased person, specifically in Ramadan?

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Question:
You mentioned three conditions regarding making up fasts on behalf of a deceased person, especially in the month of Ramadan. What is the stronger opinion? Approximately what? He says: You mentioned three conditions. The conditions. The three conditions regarding making up fasts on behalf of. Conditions, my brother. We say: opinions, opinions. Yes. Yes. Specifically in the month of Ramadan, so what is the stronger opinion among the three opinions?

Answer:
The stronger opinion, 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 on behalf of the deceased. This is because in a narration, it is stated that whoever dies with a vowed fast upon him, which is a specific verse, and Imam Ahmad held this view. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الراجح من أقوال العلماء في القضاء عن الميت خاصة في رمضان؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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