Expiation for one who dies owing fasts due to illness

The questioner : The questioner says: My father has been ill for a while, and the doctors advised him not to fast. He passed away afterward, and he had five months of fasting he did not perform because of his illness and his ignorance of the rulings of the Shari'ah. So the question is: What do we do to settle his debt? Do we give charity on his behalf, or what do we do? And what is the expiation?

The Shaykh : For the sick person whose recovery is not expected, fasting is not obligatory at all; rather, it is obligatory for him to feed one poor person for every day.
As for fasting, it is not obligatory for him, nor is it obligatory for his guardians to make it up for him after his death, because the obligation that is required of this man is to feed people. So we say to the questioner: Feed on behalf of your father one poor person for every day of these months. There is no harm in repeating the entire months for thirty poor people; you give to them for the first month, then the second, then the third, then the fourth, then the fifth. The amount of food is approximately one kilogram of rice for each poor person. It is good to include with the food, or with the barley, something to serve as a side dish, such as meat or something else. A female questioner says: Half a minute.

The questioner : Six minutes. Yes, six minutes.

The Shaykh : Six? No, we started at nine and a half and five, and now it is ten and a half minus half a minute.

The questioner : Allah is sufficient for me. Yes?

The Shaykh : An hour, you are in its place. Okay, an hour, okay.