The ruling on the expiation for one who continues intercourse upon hearing the call to prayer
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
A questioner says that his question is important: Your Eminence, I had intercourse with my wife on the night of Ramadan, but I heard the call to prayer—the Fajr prayer—while I was in that state, and I continued during my hearing of the call.
My question: What is the ruling in this case? Does the expiation apply to me and my wife as well? Do I have to feed the poor? Is paying the monetary value sufficient, or is it obligatory to provide specific food? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If a man has intercourse at the end of the night and then the dawn breaks, he should withdraw, or if he hears the adhan and knows that it is being called at the proper time, he should withdraw, and nothing is required of him. If he withdraws, nothing is required of him; this is the correct view. It is like eating until one sees the dawn and then abstaining. If he continues intercourse after the time has passed until the dawn breaks, then the expiation is required of him at that time, because his continuation is intercourse. Therefore, the known expiation is required of him, and he must make up the day. The same applies to the wife—making up the day along with the expiation—if she was willing and not coerced.
The expiation is freeing a believing slave, if one is able. If one is unable, he must fast two consecutive months, if he is able. If he is unable, he must feed sixty poor people with food. The monetary value does not suffice. Each person must be given half a sa' of dates, or rice, or the staple food of the country, which is approximately one and a half kilograms of the food people eat. This is what is obligatory for him.
As for if he is in doubt about it: whether the dawn has broken or not, and he heard the adhan but has doubt, then nothing is required of him, unless he knows that he prolonged it to the extent that it entered the day. That is, he knows that he did not withdraw until the dawn broke. This is the case where the expiation and making up the day are required. But if he withdraws at a time after hearing the adhan, or shortly after the adhan, but he does not know that the dawn has broken—because some mu'adhdhins call early, and others call after them, and they rely on the calendars they have—I do not know about this dawn.
The slight amount of time with the adhan or one or two minutes after the adhan, the original ruling is that the dawn has not broken. However, the believer should be cautious and hasten to withdraw from his wife. And when he hears the adhan, he should withdraw, so that he does not fall into what angers Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
A questioner says that his question is important: Your Eminence, I had intercourse with my wife on the night of Ramadan, but I heard the call to prayer—the Fajr prayer—while I was in that state, and I continued during my hearing of the call.
My question: What is the ruling in this case? Does the expiation apply to me and my wife as well? Do I have to feed the poor? Is paying the monetary value sufficient, or is it obligatory to provide specific food? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If a man has intercourse at the end of the night and then the dawn breaks, he should withdraw, or if he hears the adhan and knows that it is being called at the proper time, he should withdraw, and nothing is required of him. If he withdraws, nothing is required of him; this is the correct view. It is like eating until one sees the dawn and then abstaining. If he continues intercourse after the time has passed until the dawn breaks, then the expiation is required of him at that time, because his continuation is intercourse. Therefore, the known expiation is required of him, and he must make up the day. The same applies to the wife—making up the day along with the expiation—if she was willing and not coerced.
The expiation is freeing a believing slave, if one is able. If one is unable, he must fast two consecutive months, if he is able. If he is unable, he must feed sixty poor people with food. The monetary value does not suffice. Each person must be given half a sa' of dates, or rice, or the staple food of the country, which is approximately one and a half kilograms of the food people eat. This is what is obligatory for him.
As for if he is in doubt about it: whether the dawn has broken or not, and he heard the adhan but has doubt, then nothing is required of him, unless he knows that he prolonged it to the extent that it entered the day. That is, he knows that he did not withdraw until the dawn broke. This is the case where the expiation and making up the day are required. But if he withdraws at a time after hearing the adhan, or shortly after the adhan, but he does not know that the dawn has broken—because some mu'adhdhins call early, and others call after them, and they rely on the calendars they have—I do not know about this dawn.
The slight amount of time with the adhan or one or two minutes after the adhan, the original ruling is that the dawn has not broken. However, the believer should be cautious and hasten to withdraw from his wife. And when he hears the adhan, he should withdraw, so that he does not fall into what angers Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
Source
binbaz.org.sa
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.