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Expitiation for Broken Fast During Ramadan

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Question Summary

Am I required to fast 60 days in a row as an expiation?

Question Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If you are not certain that you broke a fast in Ramadan, you are not required to do any expiation. Your suspicion that you may have broken a fast is insufficient to establish the obligation of expiation (kaffara).

This is due to the principle that ‘capital punishments, as well as expiations, are averted, due to even the most minute ambiguity or doubt.’ [Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]

See this link for a Reader on Fasting Ramadan

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

 

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