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Kaffarah on salah

Last updated: 27th April 2023
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Assalaamualaikum, hope you are in good health. My mother passed away during this ramadan. She had been really sick for the last 2 years. While she prayed her salah when she could but we think she missed some salah while she was able to by head movement. I believe only hanafi madhhab says, there is kaffarah for her missed salah. Is this the case? If so, What is the basis for it? Can we give the big amount from her kaffarah towards a house roof of a family who is really poor and the husband died leaving orphans and wife recently. Or do we have to pay each salah kaffarah to a different individual person? Jazakumullahu khyran..



بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الجواب حامداومصليا

If she was able to pray with head movements and passes away in this state then a Fidya will be paid for each Salah missed. However, in a case where one loses the ability to move the head in prayer and dies in this state then there will be no Fidya. Gesturing with the eyes,heart and eyebrows are not considered in the Hanafi Fiqh.

A Fidya of Salah or Sawm is the amount (1.75 kilograms of wheat or its value) similar to Sadaqah Fitr.

A Fidya or many Fidya of Salah or Sawm should be given to one poor person and not to more than one person.

فإن لم يستطع الإيماء برأسه أخر الصلاة ولايؤمي بعينيه ولا بقلبه ولا بحاجبيه لأنه لا عبرة به
(اللباب في شرح الكتاب ٢/٢٢٥ دارالبشائر)

وإن تعذر الإيماء برأسه وكثرت الفوائت بأن زادت علي يوم وليلة سقط القضاء عنه وإن كان يفهم في ظاهر الرواية وعليه الفتوي
(الدرالمختارمع ردالمحتار ٢/٩٩،سعيد)

يعطي لكل صلوة نصف صاع من بر كالفطرة وكذا حكم الوتر والصوم
(الدرالمختارمع ردالمحتار ٢/٧٢،سعيد)

ولو أدي الفقير أقل من نصف صاع لم يجز
ولو أعطاه الكل جاز

(الدرالمختارمع ردالمحتار ٢/٧٤،سعيد)

And Allah knows best

10 Shawwal 1444/ 01 May 2023

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