Fasting on the testimony of one person and not seeing the crescent on the night of the thirtieth
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the people fasted on the testimony of one person, and then the crescent was not seen on the night of the thirtieth, do they fast thirty-one days?
Answer:
No, they do not fast thirty-one days. Their start was not valid, because if it had been valid, the crescent would have been seen. If it had been valid, the crescent would have been seen after the thirty days were completed. So if they complete thirty days and the crescent is not seen, this is evidence that their start was not valid; it cannot be valid.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the people fasted on the testimony of one person, and then the crescent was not seen on the night of the thirtieth, do they fast thirty-one days?
Answer:
No, they do not fast thirty-one days. Their start was not valid, because if it had been valid, the crescent would have been seen. If it had been valid, the crescent would have been seen after the thirty days were completed. So if they complete thirty days and the crescent is not seen, this is evidence that their start was not valid; it cannot be valid.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 035-تابع كتاب الصيام - 1 - 7-8-22 هـ — archive.org (1:23:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.