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715. Anas bin Mālik, a man from Banū ‘Abdullāh bin Ka’b said: “Some calvary men of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ came galloping upon us, so I came to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and found him having a lunch. He said: ‘Come and eat.’ I said: ‘I am fasting.’ So he said: ‘Come and I will narrate to you about the fast – or fasting. Indeed Allāh Most High lifted (the fast and) half of the Ṣalāt from the traveler, and (He lifted) the fast – or fasting – from the pregnant person, or the sick person.’ And by Allāh! The Prophet ﷺ said both of them or one of them. So woe to me! For I did not eat from the meal of the Prophet ﷺ.” (Ḥasan)
(He said:) There is something on this topic from Abū Umāmah.
Abū ‘Eisā said: The Hadīth of Anas bin Mālik Al-Ka’bī is a Ḥasan Hadīth. We do not know of anything this Anas bin Mālik narrated from the Prophet ﷺ other than this one Hadīth. This is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge. Some of the people of knowledge say that the pregnant and breast-feeding persons break the fast, make up for it, and feed.[1] This is the view of Sufyān, Mālik, Ash-Shāfi‘ī, and Aḥmad. Some of them said: They
break the fast and feed, but they are not required to make it up, and if they wish they can make it up and not feed (others). This is the saying of Ishāq.
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[1] That is, they do not have to fast, but they have to make up that day at a time when the condition is not present, and they also have to feed a needy person for each day they missed.
Commentary
Imām Ibn Qudāmah writes: If a pregnant or a suckling mother misses the fasts due to the fear of harming themselves, they will later make up the missed days of fasting.
