The Shaykh’s remarks on the hadith: “Whoever breaks the fast for one day in Ramadan and does not make it up, he will fast for the rest of his life, even if he does fast it.”

The Shaykh : And at the heads of gatherings, they claim that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said This is a hadith; perhaps it is permissible for me to say that, and praise be to Allah, it is not authentic. It is permissible for me to say that it is not authentic because I know that. But is it permissible for me to say, praise be to Allah, that it is not authentic? That is because it depicts the punishment for the one who breaks the fast in Ramadan and exaggerates by saying that if he fasted for his entire life, he would not be able to compensate for what he missed from the fast of that day which he broke. I say this in addition to something important mentioned on this occasion, even though it is related to the prayer, which is a pillar of the five pillars, a pillar of the five pillars of Islam, as you know. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said Meaning that if a Muslim realizes that he has neglected a certain prayer, the way out of that has been clarified by this authentic hadith, which is that he should increase in voluntary prayers, that he should increase in the supererogatory acts, so that he compensates from the rewards available to his account on the Day he meets Allah, compensating with these rewards available due to his voluntary prayers for what he missed of the reward of the prayer he wasted. On this scale, we can say, quoting from this authentic hadith: Whoever breaks the fast for one day in Ramadan, he must increase in voluntary acts so that he compensates for what he missed of the reward of breaking the fast for that day. From here, we say that the hadith mentioned above is weak in chain and text. This is an exaggeration, and praise be to Allah that the hadith is weak and not authentic. Yes.