Is My Fast Valid If I Unintentionally Swallowed Something?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch
Question
Is my fast valid if I unintentionally swallowed something, unsure if it was food or a thread? If invalid, must I make up those specific days, and is my fast valid if I swallowed something while making it up, thinking it might be a thread?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
The mere suspicion of swallowing something does not invalidate the fast. [Maydani, al-Lubab fi Sharh al-Kitab]
If you unintentionally swallowed something while you remembered you were fasting, the fast is broken (except in the case of the thread). [Ibid.]
Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.
He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.
In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.
