Must the Kaffara Be Completed First or Qada’?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
If a person owes both qada’ and kaffara fasts, must the kaffara be completed first?
Does eating after Fajr adhan out of ignorance require kaffara or just qada’?
If uncertain about how many fasts were missed, should one assume all fasts from age 15 until learning the rulings?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are in good faith and health.
If a person owes both makeups (qada’) and expiations (kaffara), it is superior to begin with the qada’, as it is obligatory (fard).
Eating after the Fajr adhan does not require expiation (kaffara); it only necessitates a makeup (qada’) fast.
If you are unsure about how many fasts were missed since reaching puberty (bulugh), then you should estimate the number of fasts from that period onward. [Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar; Shaykhzadah, Majma al-Anhur fi Sharh al-Multaqa al-Abhur]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel has received a traditional education in various countries. He started his schooling in the UK and completed his hifz of the Quran in India. After that, he joined an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied secular and Aalimiyya sciences. Later, he traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern countries to further his education. Mawlana has served as an Imam in the Republic of Ireland for several years and taught the Quran and other Islamic sciences to both children and adults. He also worked as a teacher and librarian at a local Islamic seminary in the UK for 12 years. Presently, he lives in the UK with his wife and is interested in books and gardening.
