The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs clarified the legal ruling on tasting food while fasting, and whether it invalidates it and when it is required to make it up.
And she said through her Twitter account today, Saturday, 24 Ramadan 1444, in a series "Ramadan questions" The fasting person tasting food for a need, such as knowing its goodness, is permissible according to some scholars, but it is disliked by the majority, and the one who tastes the food must be careful not to let it reach the stomach, but if he deliberately swallows the food, then he breaks his fast and is sinning, and he must make it up according to the majority. (Islam Web 44133).
The details of the fatwa stipulate that the fasting person’s taste for food is necessary, such as knowing its righteousness. Some scholars and the public permitted it to be disliked, and he must guard against food reaching the stomach. What is in the hadeeth: Whoever breaks the fast in Ramadan out of forgetfulness does not have to make it up or atonement. Narrated by Al-Hakim, Ibn Khuzaymah and Al-Bayhaqi, and Ibn Hajar said its chain of transmission is authentic.
But if he swallows the food intentionally, then he breaks the fast and is sinning, and he must make it up according to the majority, and the Malikis are obligated to make it up and atonement.. And God knows best.
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