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The ruling on one who has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan while ignorant of the ruling!!

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Question : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh. I had intercourse with my wife several times at the end of Ramadan, on more than one day, and I was ignorant of the ruling. When I learned the ruling, I fasted two consecutive months, and during that time I broke my fast for one day because I was traveling. What is the ruling in the following? First, how valid is my fasting, given that I broke my fast for one day because I was traveling?

Answer : It should be known first: what is the ruling on the fasting in which I had intercourse? The one who had intercourse while ignorant—if he was ignorant when he had intercourse with his wife during fasting, thinking that intercourse is lawful, then he owes nothing, even though this is a remote possibility. However, his case is with Allah the Exalted. If he says, "I did not know that intercourse during fasting is forbidden," then he owes nothing, neither for the first act of intercourse nor for any subsequent acts. But if he knew that intercourse during fasting is forbidden...
...but he did not know that there is an expiation, then the expiation is upon him. The expiation is freeing a slave. If he does not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If he is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people. The scholars say that if he repeats intercourse on one day and does not perform the expiation, only one expiation is required of him. If he repeats intercourse on two days, then an expiation is required for each day. Based on this, if he had intercourse three times on three days, how much is required of him? Three expiations, meaning six months.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[17 من 93] حكم من جامع زوجته في نهار رمضان جاهلاً بالحكم!! الشيخ ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com

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