A woman who has days of fasting to make up from last year and Ramadan has arrived: what is required of her?
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Question : And regarding the woman who has days of fasting to make up from last year and Ramadan has arrived: what is required of her?
Answer : If the month of Ramadan enters and a person has days from the previous Ramadan, let her fast the current month, and then when it ends, she makes up what she owed from the previous month. But is it obligatory for her to feed [the poor] along with making up the fast?
Feeding a poor person, or is it not obligatory? In this, there is a distinction. If she left the fasting, meaning making up the fast from last year, for an excuse, then she makes it up and owes nothing.
And if it was without an excuse, some scholars said she makes it up and feeds a poor person for each day, and some said she makes it up and does not feed. This is the stronger position: she makes it up and does not feed, because there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah that feeding is obligatory with making up the fast. Allah the Exalted said: "Then a number of other days."
Answer : If the month of Ramadan enters and a person has days from the previous Ramadan, let her fast the current month, and then when it ends, she makes up what she owed from the previous month. But is it obligatory for her to feed [the poor] along with making up the fast?
Feeding a poor person, or is it not obligatory? In this, there is a distinction. If she left the fasting, meaning making up the fast from last year, for an excuse, then she makes it up and owes nothing.
And if it was without an excuse, some scholars said she makes it up and feeds a poor person for each day, and some said she makes it up and does not feed. This is the stronger position: she makes it up and does not feed, because there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah that feeding is obligatory with making up the fast. Allah the Exalted said: "Then a number of other days."
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 22 - 45 امرأة عليها قضاء من العام الماضي وأدركها رمضان فماذا عليها؟ فقه الصيام والقيام - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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