What is better for the traveler in Ramadan: fasting or breaking the fast?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is better for the traveler in Ramadan if his journey is four days or less? He says: What is better for the traveler in Ramadan if his journey is less than four days, to fast or to break the fast and make it up?
Answer:
The traveler who travels the distance of shortening the prayer, eighty kilometers or more, is given a choice. If he wishes, he fasts while traveling, and if he wishes, he breaks his fast. However, breaking the fast is better for the traveler than fasting. As for fasting, it suffices him according to the apparent view of the Zahiriyyah. They say it does not suffice him. His obligatory fasting, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is better for the traveler in Ramadan if his journey is four days or less? He says: What is better for the traveler in Ramadan if his journey is less than four days, to fast or to break the fast and make it up?
Answer:
The traveler who travels the distance of shortening the prayer, eighty kilometers or more, is given a choice. If he wishes, he fasts while traveling, and if he wishes, he breaks his fast. However, breaking the fast is better for the traveler than fasting. As for fasting, it suffices him according to the apparent view of the Zahiriyyah. They say it does not suffice him. His obligatory fasting, yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 13-04-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (40:19)
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