The Ruling on Sharing the Making Up of Fasting Owed by a Deceased Person
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Question:
The questioner : There is another point before we conclude this session, Your Eminence. We are three daughters, and our mother passed away. She owed about twenty days of making up fasts from Ramadan. Is it permissible for us to help each other in making up her fasts, meaning each of us fasts seven days, or are we required to have only one of us perform the making up?
Answer:
The Shaykh : There is no harm if you help one another, as long as it is making up fasts from Ramadan. There is no harm in helping one another. One of you fasts two days, and another fasts four days, until they complete it. There is no harm.
The Shaykh : However, if it is a consecutive fast, such as a consecutive expiation, or a consecutive vow, one person must fast it consecutively; based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih Muslim 1147 So if the deceased owed an expiation for killing, which is two months, or an expiation for zihar, it is fasted on his behalf consecutively. One person fasts it consecutively. If there is hardship in that, they expiate on his behalf by feeding people, such as the expiation for zihar: feeding sixty poor people, or intercourse in Ramadan: feeding sixty poor people. And if one of them fasts sixty days on his behalf, may Allah reward him with good.
The Shaykh : As for killing, there is no feeding involved; there is only fasting, or freeing a slave. If there is in his estate what necessitates freeing a slave, and freeing a slave is facilitated, they should free a slave from his estate. If freeing a slave is not facilitated, some of them should fast on his behalf; based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih Muslim 1147 One of them should fast it consecutively. As for making up fasts from Ramadan, there is no harm in sharing it, because it does not require consecutiveness. So if this one fasts some days, and that one fasts some days, it becomes twenty days owed to him... four days, each one fasts five days; there is no harm. Yes.
The questioner : There is another point before we conclude this session, Your Eminence. We are three daughters, and our mother passed away. She owed about twenty days of making up fasts from Ramadan. Is it permissible for us to help each other in making up her fasts, meaning each of us fasts seven days, or are we required to have only one of us perform the making up?
Answer:
The Shaykh : There is no harm if you help one another, as long as it is making up fasts from Ramadan. There is no harm in helping one another. One of you fasts two days, and another fasts four days, until they complete it. There is no harm.
The Shaykh : However, if it is a consecutive fast, such as a consecutive expiation, or a consecutive vow, one person must fast it consecutively; based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone dies in a state (that he had to complete) some fasts, his heir must fast on his behalf.
من مات وعليه صيام؛ صام عنه وليهThe Shaykh : As for killing, there is no feeding involved; there is only fasting, or freeing a slave. If there is in his estate what necessitates freeing a slave, and freeing a slave is facilitated, they should free a slave from his estate. If freeing a slave is not facilitated, some of them should fast on his behalf; based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone dies in a state (that he had to complete) some fasts, his heir must fast on his behalf.
من مات وعليه صيام؛ صام عنه وليه
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