A man who had to make up one day of Ramadan intended to fast it and then follow it with the six days of Shawwal, but when he began fasting, he remembered that he had not made the intention the night before for the day of making up the fast.
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.
He says:The questioner : Your Eminence, I present this question to you, and I am in a state of confusion. I intended after Ramadan to fast what I owed in making up the fast, which was one day. I fasted, and I intended to fast the six days after it. I started fasting on a Sunday, and when I woke up, I forgot that I had not made the intention the night before for the day of making up the fast. I fasted that day, then I fasted three days of the six after it. The question is: Do I continue with the remaining days of the six? And is that day counted for me as making up the fast or as one of the six? I ask for clarification. May Allah guide you.
The Shaykh : If a person sleeps with the intention of making up the fast, then gets up at night and eats the pre-dawn meal, and it escapes his mind that he intended to make up the fast, and he does not remember it until after the dawn has appeared, then he should continue with the fast of making up the fast. This is because the original state is the continuation of the first intention, and he slept with the understanding that the next day was one of his days of making up the fast. However, if that was not the case, and he did not intend to fast until he got up at the end of the night, and when he got up at the end of the night, what was in his mind was to fast the six days, and he forgot about making up the fast, then this does not suffice for him as making up the fast.
As for the three days he fasted while he had not made up the fast, these are considered invalid by some scholars, and he has no reward for them. However, the correct view is that he has a reward for them, but he does not attain the reward of the six days, because the six days must be after making up the fast of Ramadan. Yes.
He says:The questioner : Your Eminence, I present this question to you, and I am in a state of confusion. I intended after Ramadan to fast what I owed in making up the fast, which was one day. I fasted, and I intended to fast the six days after it. I started fasting on a Sunday, and when I woke up, I forgot that I had not made the intention the night before for the day of making up the fast. I fasted that day, then I fasted three days of the six after it. The question is: Do I continue with the remaining days of the six? And is that day counted for me as making up the fast or as one of the six? I ask for clarification. May Allah guide you.
The Shaykh : If a person sleeps with the intention of making up the fast, then gets up at night and eats the pre-dawn meal, and it escapes his mind that he intended to make up the fast, and he does not remember it until after the dawn has appeared, then he should continue with the fast of making up the fast. This is because the original state is the continuation of the first intention, and he slept with the understanding that the next day was one of his days of making up the fast. However, if that was not the case, and he did not intend to fast until he got up at the end of the night, and when he got up at the end of the night, what was in his mind was to fast the six days, and he forgot about making up the fast, then this does not suffice for him as making up the fast.
As for the three days he fasted while he had not made up the fast, these are considered invalid by some scholars, and he has no reward for them. However, the correct view is that he has a reward for them, but he does not attain the reward of the six days, because the six days must be after making up the fast of Ramadan. Yes.