Questions about Ramadan-Erroneous assumptions about the time of dawn and sunset in regards to fasting

عضو الماسي

Number 1103
Subject Erroneous assumptions about the time of dawn and sunset in regards to fasting
Date 9/5/2007
Question
We reviewed request a request for the ruling on erroneous assumptions about the time of dawn and sunset in regards to fasting.

Answer
Fatwa Council

According to the majority of scholars, a person must make up his fast if he eats after dawn presuming that dawn has not entered or eats before sunset thinking the sun has set and finds out later that he was mistaken. Presumptions which prove to be erroneous are of no legal significance.

In al-Sunan al-Kubra, al-Bayhaqi reported through Shu'aib ibn 'Amr ibn Sulaym al-Ansari who said: "My father and I broke our fast in the home of Suhaib al-Khayr [En. the generous] in Ramadan on a drizzling cloudy day. Suddenly the sun appeared, so Suhaib said: 'Allah fed us. Complete your fast until sunset and make up a day in its place.' "

Allah Almighty knows best.

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