A man who has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan without ejaculation: what is the ruling?
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The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah forgive you, a man had intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan without ejaculation. What is his obligation?
The Shaykh : If a man has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan, and he is one for whom fasting is obligatory, then five things follow from his intercourse:
First: sin.
Second: the invalidity of the fast for that day.
Third: the obligation to abstain from food and drink for the rest of the day.
Fourth: the obligation to make up the fast.
Fifth: the obligation to pay expiation.
The expiation is freeing a slave. If he does not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If he is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people. This applies even if he did not ejaculate, because intercourse necessitates the full ritual bath even without ejaculation, it invalidates the fast even without ejaculation, and it invalidates Hajj even without ejaculation if it occurs before the first exit from the state of ihram.
As for the person who has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan but for whom fasting is not obligatory, such as if he and his wife are traveling, and during the day he had intercourse with her while they were fasting, then there is no sin on these two. Rather, they break their fast for that day, eat and drink, and make up one day in its place, because the traveler is not required to fast.
The questioner : This, O Shaykh, is for the one on whom fasting is obligatory, but he thinks that the expiation and these consequences depend only on ejaculation?
The Shaykh : But he knows that it is forbidden.
The questioner : Yes, he knows.
The Shaykh : But he thinks that the expiation depends on ejaculation?
The questioner : He thinks that these matters, meaning the prohibition, the sin, and breaking the fast, all depend on ejaculation.
The Shaykh : But he knows that intercourse is forbidden?
The questioner : Intercourse with ejaculation.
The Shaykh : Without ejaculation?
The questioner : No, he does not know.
The Shaykh : He does not know this?
The questioner : No, he thinks there is nothing wrong with it.
The Shaykh : If this is his belief, then he owes nothing, by the saying of the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:286].
The questioner : And no making up of that day?
The Shaykh : And no making up of that day.
The Shaykh : If a man has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan, and he is one for whom fasting is obligatory, then five things follow from his intercourse:
First: sin.
Second: the invalidity of the fast for that day.
Third: the obligation to abstain from food and drink for the rest of the day.
Fourth: the obligation to make up the fast.
Fifth: the obligation to pay expiation.
The expiation is freeing a slave. If he does not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If he is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people. This applies even if he did not ejaculate, because intercourse necessitates the full ritual bath even without ejaculation, it invalidates the fast even without ejaculation, and it invalidates Hajj even without ejaculation if it occurs before the first exit from the state of ihram.
As for the person who has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan but for whom fasting is not obligatory, such as if he and his wife are traveling, and during the day he had intercourse with her while they were fasting, then there is no sin on these two. Rather, they break their fast for that day, eat and drink, and make up one day in its place, because the traveler is not required to fast.
The questioner : This, O Shaykh, is for the one on whom fasting is obligatory, but he thinks that the expiation and these consequences depend only on ejaculation?
The Shaykh : But he knows that it is forbidden.
The questioner : Yes, he knows.
The Shaykh : But he thinks that the expiation depends on ejaculation?
The questioner : He thinks that these matters, meaning the prohibition, the sin, and breaking the fast, all depend on ejaculation.
The Shaykh : But he knows that intercourse is forbidden?
The questioner : Intercourse with ejaculation.
The Shaykh : Without ejaculation?
The questioner : No, he does not know.
The Shaykh : He does not know this?
The questioner : No, he thinks there is nothing wrong with it.
The Shaykh : If this is his belief, then he owes nothing, by the saying of the Exalted:
Our Lord, do not impose blame upon us if we have forgotten or erred.
رَبَّنَا لا تُؤَاخِذْنَا إِنْ نَسِينَا أَوْ أَخْطَأْنَاThe questioner : And no making up of that day?
The Shaykh : And no making up of that day.