One who dies owing the making up of Ramadan fasts

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, if a person breaks his fast in Ramadan, then drinks and does not make up the fast, and then dies after that, is it the fast that is owed, or is it lifted by feeding a poor person for each day? Or is it both the fast and the feeding? Yes.

Answer:
The fast does not suffice for him in place of what is made up from Ramadan, because it is a physical act, so delegation does not apply to it. As for the feeding, if he recovered and left off making up the fasts until he died, then if this was between the two Ramadans—the Ramadan in which he broke his fast and the Ramadan following it—he owes nothing, because the time for making them up was extended between the two Ramadans, and he died within that time. But if he delayed it until after the following Ramadan, while he was able to make them up, then he must feed a poor person for each day. As for fasting on his behalf, that does not suffice, because it is a physical act to which delegation does not apply, just as delegation does not apply to prayer. Yes.