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:[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.
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 sunset
ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ
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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