The ruling on one who intentionally breaks his fast in Ramadan

Question : The questioner says: One who intentionally breaks his fast, we require him to make it up. And there is a hadith: intentionally and deliberately, so even if he fasted for the rest of his life, it would not make up for it, or as it was reported in the hadith. We ask for clarification?

Answer : This hadith is weak according to many scholars. And if it is weak, then we return to the original principle that if a person invalidates his worship, he is required to make it up. Just as if a person was praying and then invalidated his prayer by breaking his ritual purity, or laughing, or eating, or drinking, he is required to make up that prayer. Likewise, if fasting is invalidated, he is required to make it up. This is different from the man who abandoned fasting entirely and did not fast at all. The majority of scholars say that it is obligatory for him to make it up, but the correct view is that it is not obligatory for him to make it up, not out of mercy for him or to lighten the burden on him, but because his fasting after the time has passed does not benefit him and does not clear his conscience. So we do not require him to do something that does not benefit him.