LessonsKitab al-Sawm: Categories of Fasting and Rules of IntentionQuiz

وَالْكَفَّارَاتِ،
Translation: And fasts undertaken as expiation.

Kaffarah is a legally prescribed expiation for a particular cause. Where fasting is required as expiation, the current day is not independently designated as such by the calendar.

Accordingly, Quduri lists expiatory fasting among liability-based duties. The circumstances, number, and sequence of those fasts belong to their own substantive legal chapters; this passage establishes the intention rule.

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Expiatory fasts

Kitab al-Sawm: Categories of Fasting and Rules of Intention

وَالْكَفَّارَاتِ،
Translation: And fasts undertaken as expiation.

Kaffarah is a legally prescribed expiation for a particular cause. Where fasting is required as expiation, the current day is not independently designated as such by the calendar.

Accordingly, Quduri lists expiatory fasting among liability-based duties. The circumstances, number, and sequence of those fasts belong to their own substantive legal chapters; this passage establishes the intention rule.