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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on fasting for one who broke his fast before Maghrib due to a mistaken estimation of the time

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: We traveled from Makkah to al-Madinah in the month of Ramadan, and there are many mountains on the road, so we could not see the sun. He says: So I checked my phone for the time of Maghrib in al-Madinah, because we were close to it, about eighty kilometers away. So we calculated the time and broke our fast, but after five minutes we passed a mosque on the road and found that the adhan for the Maghrib prayer had not been called yet. He says: Is our fast valid, or what must we do?

Answer:
If you broke your fast before the sun set, you must make up the fast, because you did not complete the day. Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:
Then complete the fast until the sunsetثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:187]
. So if you are certain that you broke your fast before the sun set, you must make it up. Eighty kilometers, there may be a time difference; eighty kilometers is far. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب الرخصة في إعادة الجماعة وركعتي الطواف في كل وقت — islamhouse.com (55:23)

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