Chapter on One Who Becomes Muslim in Month of Ramadan, and the Ruling of One Who Reaches Puberty in It, and One Who Dies after Having Fasted Part of It or Not Having Fasted Anything from It

Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi Umayr, from Hammad ibn Isa, from Hariz, from Muhammad ibn Muslim, who said: I (narrator) asked the one of the two Imams عليه السلام, peace be upon them, about ‘a man who became sick and did not fast until another month of Ramadan overtook him.’ So the Imams عليه السلام said: “If he had recovered, then was negligent before the other fast overtook him, he fasts the one that has overtaken him, gives charity for each day with a mudd of food to a needy person, and upon him is its making up. But if he had continued to be sick until another month of Ramadan overtook him, he fasts the one that has overtaken him and gives charity for the first, for each day a mudd to a needy person, and there is no making up upon him.”