Chapter on Making Up the Month of Ramadan, and the Ruling of One Who Breaks the Fast in It Intentionally and Forgetfully, and One upon Whom Fasting Two Consecutive Months Is Obligatory and He Breaks the Fast during Them, or upon Whom There Is a Vow Regarding Fasting

Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from a number of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Ashyam, from Sulayman ibn Jafar al-Jafari, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘a man who has days from the month of Ramadan upon him, should he make them up separately?’ Imam عليه السلام said: “There is no harm in separating the making up of the month of Ramadan. The fasting that is not to be separated is only the expiation of zihar (unlawful pre-Islamic practice), the expiation of blood, and the expiation of an oath.”