The ruling on making up fasts and expiation for one who delayed fasting for a long period
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Question:
This questioner says: I gave birth to two of my children during the blessed month of Ramadan, so I did not fast because, she says, I was a woman with post-natal bleeding and a nursing mother. After twenty-two years have passed, she wants to make up that debt for these two months. What is the ruling on making up the fasts? And does an expiation become obligatory in addition to the fasting? She mentions that she is a woman of poor means.
Answer:
She must repent to Allah; the woman mentioned must repent to Allah the Exalted from this great delay, and she must make up the Ramadan in which she did not fast. She must make up all the days she missed. If the two children were twins in the same year, she must make up the month. If each was born in a different Ramadan, she must make up the two months. If each was born in a Ramadan in a different year, she must make up the two months. If they were twins within the same month, she must make up Ramadan.
She must feed one poor person for each day if she is able to do so. If she is not able and is poor, fasting is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, along with repentance to Allah . However, if she is able, she must feed one poor person for each day in addition to fasting. Half a sa' with the fasting amounts to fifteen sa' for one Ramadan, which is given to some of the poor. If it is two Ramadans, it is thirty sa' given to some of the poor in addition to fasting. This is because her question suggests that it may have been in one year, or it may have been in two years. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
This questioner says: I gave birth to two of my children during the blessed month of Ramadan, so I did not fast because, she says, I was a woman with post-natal bleeding and a nursing mother. After twenty-two years have passed, she wants to make up that debt for these two months. What is the ruling on making up the fasts? And does an expiation become obligatory in addition to the fasting? She mentions that she is a woman of poor means.
Answer:
She must repent to Allah; the woman mentioned must repent to Allah the Exalted from this great delay, and she must make up the Ramadan in which she did not fast. She must make up all the days she missed. If the two children were twins in the same year, she must make up the month. If each was born in a different Ramadan, she must make up the two months. If each was born in a Ramadan in a different year, she must make up the two months. If they were twins within the same month, she must make up Ramadan.
She must feed one poor person for each day if she is able to do so. If she is not able and is poor, fasting is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, along with repentance to Allah . However, if she is able, she must feed one poor person for each day in addition to fasting. Half a sa' with the fasting amounts to fifteen sa' for one Ramadan, which is given to some of the poor. If it is two Ramadans, it is thirty sa' given to some of the poor in addition to fasting. This is because her question suggests that it may have been in one year, or it may have been in two years. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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