Title: Breaking fast late

Question: If one sleeps through Iftari by accident and didn't wake up until after Isha beginning time, is the fast invalidated? This was not intentional. If fast is invalidated, is kaffarah required or is making up fast sufficient?

Answer ID: 163069Posted on: Sep 1, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 1150/994/D=10/1439)

ليس التفريط فى النوم انما التفريط فى اليقظه  i.e. There is no negligence when one sleeps, rather negligence is when one is awake. So there is no remissness in sleep. Yes there is negligence in the state of awakening and one will be accountable for the same.

Thus in the question mentioned above when the said person continued sleeping till Isha prayer then he should break his fast after he awakes. There is no qaza of that fast nor he needs to pay any kind of kaffarah.