Drawing blood for analysis or donation for the fasting person
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Question:
And may Allah reward you as well regarding the issue of drawing a small amount of blood for the purpose of analysis, or a large amount for the purpose of donation, or for a person to keep it in a sterile state, that is
Answer:
Regarding the hadith on prohibition, the correct view is that the fasting person is not invalidated by injections used to relieve pain, such as those that stimulate a vein or a muscle. Only the injections that provide nourishment to the patient invalidate the fast. Likewise, the prohibition and the customary practice do not invalidate the fast. However, if a large amount is drawn to assist certain patients or for blood transfusion, there is a basis for exercising caution by analogy with cupping, from the perspective of precaution. Otherwise, the default ruling is that the fast is invalidated by what enters the body, and this is the default. If it touches him, it is like menstruation. Yes, the point is that drawing blood from a person for analysis.
does not harm him, nor does it harm his fast. Likewise, drawing it for emergency assistance, the default is that it does not harm. But if the believer wants to be cautious and analogize it to cupping, even though the default is not to make such an analogy, but from the perspective of caution, the default is not to analogize it to cupping. Although the disagreement regarding cupping is well known, and the majority holds that breaking the fast by it is due to travel, and that it does not break the fast for the one who cups or the one who is cupped. But in the authentic narrations, cupping breaks the fast, due to the authenticity of the hadiths in this matter. But one should not restrict the ruling to it. Yes.
And may Allah reward you as well regarding the issue of drawing a small amount of blood for the purpose of analysis, or a large amount for the purpose of donation, or for a person to keep it in a sterile state, that is
Answer:
Regarding the hadith on prohibition, the correct view is that the fasting person is not invalidated by injections used to relieve pain, such as those that stimulate a vein or a muscle. Only the injections that provide nourishment to the patient invalidate the fast. Likewise, the prohibition and the customary practice do not invalidate the fast. However, if a large amount is drawn to assist certain patients or for blood transfusion, there is a basis for exercising caution by analogy with cupping, from the perspective of precaution. Otherwise, the default ruling is that the fast is invalidated by what enters the body, and this is the default. If it touches him, it is like menstruation. Yes, the point is that drawing blood from a person for analysis.
does not harm him, nor does it harm his fast. Likewise, drawing it for emergency assistance, the default is that it does not harm. But if the believer wants to be cautious and analogize it to cupping, even though the default is not to make such an analogy, but from the perspective of caution, the default is not to analogize it to cupping. Although the disagreement regarding cupping is well known, and the majority holds that breaking the fast by it is due to travel, and that it does not break the fast for the one who cups or the one who is cupped. But in the authentic narrations, cupping breaks the fast, due to the authenticity of the hadiths in this matter. But one should not restrict the ruling to it. Yes.
Source
الجواب الصريح عن أسئلة التراويح — islamhouse.com (1:12:36)
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