Donating Blood While Fasting
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on donating blood while fasting? And what is the ruling if he is compelled to donate it?
Answer:
He donates it for emergency aid, rescue aid, in the category of saving the life of the injured person, and he makes up this day, he makes it up. It is permissible for him to break his fast in order to save a Muslim. It is permissible for him to break his fast if the rescue depends on breaking the fast; he breaks his fast and saves the Muslim, whether it is blood or something else. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on donating blood while fasting? And what is the ruling if he is compelled to donate it?
Answer:
He donates it for emergency aid, rescue aid, in the category of saving the life of the injured person, and he makes up this day, he makes it up. It is permissible for him to break his fast in order to save a Muslim. It is permissible for him to break his fast if the rescue depends on breaking the fast; he breaks his fast and saves the Muslim, whether it is blood or something else. Yes.
Source
مختصر زاد المعاد (للإمام محمد بن عبدالوهاب)، مختصر زاد المعاد [16] — alfawzan.live (56:06)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.