How is fasting for the dead and its rulings? Is it permissible? Fatwa: Fasting on behalf of the dead, according to what scholars say, does not differ in its manner and rulings from a person’s fasting on his own behalf. And fasting on behalf of the deceased is what is agreed upon that it is not required, and it is what is different about it, is it required or not?. It is agreed not to request it if he broke his fast for a legitimate excuse and was not able to make up for it until he died, either because the excuse was related to death or the lack of a suitable time to make up, such as if he breaks the fast for days of Ramadan and then dies on the day of Eid, for example. As for the difference in his request, it is whether he had to fast to make up for the days he broke his fast from Ramadan, or a vow he made and neglected that fast until he died. Among the people of knowledge are those who said that it is obligatory for his guardian to fast on his behalf, citing as evidence what is in the two Sahihs that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: Whoever dies, then he must Fasting fasted for him and why. Some of them prevented that, and the most correct is that it is not obligatory for the guardian, but rather he is delegated to him, and more than one narrated the consensus on the non-obligation, but this consensus is broken by the saying of some of the people of the phenomenon according to those who considered them in it. God knows.
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