Do I Have To Make Up Missed Fasts Within A Year?
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
In the Hanafi school, a person simply has to make up those missed fasts, when able, and no expiation (fidya) is required.
The details of this are:
(1) If you miss a fast, you must make it up. This duty is not lifted if you fail to make it up before the next Ramadan.
(2) The duty is to actually make up one’s missed fasts. Unless one is elderly and permanently unable to fast, one can’t give expiatory payments instead.
(3) If unsure about how many fasts one missed, one should make a reasonable-yet-conservative estimate. The general principle is that when certainty is not possible, one resorts to reasoned judgment.
By: Imam Omar Khan
