Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: The Case of One Who Eats or Drinks but Has Doubts About Its Taking Place before or after Dawn 5ـ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي إِبْرَاهِي٠َ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) يَكُونُ عَلَيَّ الْيَوْ٠َضَانَ فَأَتَسَحَّرُ ٠ُصْبِحاً أُفْطِرُ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠َكَانَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠اً آخَرَ أَوْ أُتِ٠ِ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠ِ وَأَقْضِي يَوْ٠اً آخَرَ فَقَالَ لا بَلْ تُفْطِرُ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠َ لأَنَّكَ أَكَلْتَ ٠ُصْبِحاً وَتَقْضِي يَوْ٠5.

From Safwan ibn Yahya has narrated from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ibrahim (a.s.), about the case of my fasting that I owe one or two days of the month of Ramadan. I eat Suhur (breakfast in the morning before dawn) but it is already dawn. Is it necessary for me to eat that day instead of fasting and make Qada’ (compensatory fast) of that day on another day or complete that fast and then make Qada’ (compensatory fast) on another day?

He (the Imam) said, ‘No, but you eat in that day; you ate after dawn. You must make Qada’ (compensatory fast) for it on another day.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/264))