Chapter on Expiation for Intentionally Breaking the Fast of a Day from the Month of Ramadan

And from him, from Ibrahim ibn Hashim, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Hammad, from Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Hamid, from some of his freed servants, who said: I (narrator) asked Imam عليه السلام about ‘the wet dream of the fasting person.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “If he has a wet dream during the day in the month of Ramadan, then he must not sleep until he performs ghusl. And if he becomes junub at night in the month of Ramadan, then he has no right to sleep for an hour until he performs ghusl. So whoever becomes junub in the month of Ramadan, then sleeps until morning comes, then upon him is the freeing of a slave, or feeding sixty needy persons. And upon him is to making up that day, and he completes his fast, and he will never attain it (the merits of the original fast).”