Fasting on the Day of Doubt

Question

This year in Ramadan, those people who kept the Ramadan fast — that is, in their view the 30th of Sha‘ban had already been the 1st of Ramadan — have they, by this reckoning, completed their 30 days of fasting or not? If not, will they too, like the people who did not fast on that day, have to keep one fast later in accordance with the Delhi fatwa, or not?

Answer

Fasting on the 30th of Sha‘ban, deeming it the 1st of Ramadan merely on the basis of doubt, without having sighted the new moon, is makruh. However, for those who did so, their fasts became makruh; now the qada (make-up)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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