Do I Have to Perform an Expiation (Kaffara) of Fasts if I Had Carelessly Inhaled Water?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
Do I Have to Perform an Expiation (Kaffara) of Fasts if I Had Carelessly Inhaled Water?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health.
If one swallowed water at the time of ablution (wudu) unintentionally while remembering one is fasting, then the fast will be broken.
However, in your case, you will only have to do a make up (qada) of the fast for that day. Expiation will not be necessary.
[IbnʿAbidin, Radd al-Muhtar; ʿAla’uddin ‘Ibn ʿAbidin, Al-Hadiyya al-ʿAla’iyya]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani.
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey.
He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.
He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.
He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His personal interest is the love of books and gardening.
