Do suppositories and grains inserted into the rectum break the fast?

Question : The questioner says: There are small tablets that are inserted into the rectum and travel up the rectum to the intestines. They say that they break the fast. What is your opinion? Thank you.

Answer : If these grains, which some people insert into the rectum, reach the stomach and settle there, then they break the fast. However, if they do not reach the stomach, the matter is doubtful. Some scholars said that they break the fast, and this is the well-known position in the school of jurisprudence. Others said that they do not break the fast, as chosen by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him). The preferred view is that a person must make up the fast if such a situation occurs, unless he was ignorant, in which case he does not have to make it up. Additionally, as a precaution, one should not use these grains during the time of fasting, but rather postpone them to the night, and in the night is what is followed, if Allah wills.