The ruling on breaking the fast for the expiation of intercourse during the day in Ramadan due to the excuse of illness

Question:
This is a question sent by the brother Idris Hajj Muhammad. He says: I engaged in intercourse during the day in Ramadan, and I did not know that intercourse during fasting requires expiation and making up the fast. After I learned about the making up and expiation that would befall me, I bought a bag of rice and distributed it to the poor. I also began fasting, and I continued fasting until I completed fifty-seven days. After that, I fell ill with a severe illness that prevented me from fasting, so I stopped fasting for two days. Then I resumed it until I completed sixty days. Does this suffice for the expiation or not? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
You have done well in what you did, and praise be to Allah. The interruption due to illness does not harm; because illness is a legal excuse, so the interruption due to it does not harm. When you completed three days after that, the fast became valid and complete, and you performed the expiation, praise be to Allah. There is no additional feeding of the poor with the fasting. Feeding is a substitute if fasting becomes difficult. If fasting is easy, then fasting is the priority, it is sufficient, and it is the necessary expiation after freeing a slave for one who is unable to free a slave. Yes.
As for feeding the poor, it is only required when one is unable to fast. As long as you fasted, praise be to Allah, so there is no feeding required of you. The bag that you gave in charity will be voluntary and will be a good deed for you, with its reward with Allah.