Does Fasting in Ramaḍān Become Obligatory During the Day If a Legislated Exemption Ends? (i.e. Travel, Illness, Menses, Postpartum Period)
Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn [d. 1421 AH] said:
The example of the person of which fasting becomes obligatory in the middle of the day—such that this person is subjected to either fasting [immediately] or on another day—[includes]:
the woman whose menses cease,
a woman whose postpartum period finishes,
and a traveller who returns home [during the day] whilst not in a fasting state.
These are three issues to which we will add a fourth: a sick person who makes a recovery.
We collectively liken this to the issue of removing that which prevents the fast during the day [of obligatory...