Swallowing water mistakenly while fasting
Question
I was fasting one day in Ramadan and I didn't know that if one gargles and water goes down one's throat then the fast is invalid. So one day I was performing ghusl and I gargled 3 times and I may have accidentally swallowed some water. Is my fast invalid?
Answer
If at the time you swallowed the water, you remembered you were fasting, your fast will break. Only qadha will be waajib.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
References (Arabic / Urdu sources)
محمد: قال أخبرنا أبو حنيفة عن حماد عن إبراهيم أنه قال في الرجل يمضمض أو يستنشق وهو صائم ، فيسبقه الماء فيدخل حلقه قال يتم صومه ثم يقضي يوما مكانه. قال محمد وبه ناخذ إن كان ذاكرا لصومه فإذا كان ناسيا للصوم فلا قضاء عليه وهو قول أبي حنيفة رحمه الله تعالى. (كتاب الآثار ص162)
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- Mufti Zakaria Makada
- Checked & approved by
- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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