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

And from him, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Ismail, from Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl, and al-Husayn ibn Said, from Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Sabbah al-Kinani, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘a man upon whom there was a portion from the month of Ramadan, then a coming month of Ramadan overtook him.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “If he had recovered in between that, then did not make it up until a coming (month of) Ramadan overtook him, then upon him is that he fast and that he feed a needy person for each day. And if he was sick in between that until a coming month of Ramadan overtook him, then nothing is upon him except fasting if he recovers. But if the illness continued upon him, then upon him is that he feed a needy person for each day.”