Chapter on Itikaf and What Fasting Is Obligatory in It

And from him, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Najran, from Safwan ibn Yahya, from Samaah ibn Mihran, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I (narrator) asked Imam عليه السلام about ‘one observing seclusion for worship (mutakif) who had intercourse with his wife.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “Upon him is what is upon the one who deliberately breaks the fast for a day from the month of Ramadan; freeing a slave, or fasting two consecutive months, or feeding sixty poor persons.”