Forgetting a make-up fast until the next Ramadan

A question about forgetting a make-up fast until the next Ramadan, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that he commits no sin and owes no fidya alongside the make-up, because delay for an excuse such as forgetting carries no fidya. ¹

The questioner asked whether someone who forgot to make up Ramadan fasts until the next Ramadan arrived owes fidya in addition to the make-up. ¹

The Department answered that whoever forgets to make up Ramadan until another Ramadan arrives commits no sin, citing a hadith narrated by Ibn Majah and by al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-Kubra, whose meaning is that God has overlooked for this community mistakes, forgetting and what they are coerced into. ¹ It said he owes no fidya, quoting Bushra al-Karim (p. 580), a Shafi'i work, that delaying the make-up for an excuse such as travel, nursing, forgetting or not knowing that delay is forbidden carries no fidya even if it lasts years, because these excuses permit delaying the fast itself, so they permit delaying its make-up all the more. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4331, dated 8 March 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.