SECTION ON FASTING · 28 – BLOODLETTING WHILE FASTING
2367 – It is narrated from Thawbān (may Allah be pleased with him): The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The one who performs bloodletting and the one who has bloodletting done, both have broken their fast.” [278]
2368 – From Shaddād ibn Aws (may Allah be pleased with him): “He (Shaddād) narrated that he was walking with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him),” and he mentioned a narration similar to the previous hadith of Thawbān. [279]
2369 – It is narrated from Shaddād ibn Aws (may Allah be pleased with him): The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) came to a man in Baqīʿ. That man was having bloodletting done. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was holding my hand. Eighteen days of Ramadan had passed. He said, “The one who performs bloodletting and the one who has bloodletting done, both have broken their fast.”
2370 – It is narrated from Thawbān (may Allah be pleased with him), the freed slave of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him): The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The one who performs bloodletting and the one who has bloodletting done, both have broken their fast.”
2371 – It is narrated from Thawbān (may Allah be pleased with him): The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The one who performs bloodletting and the one who has it done, both have broken their fast.”
EXPLANATION
According to the Ḥanafī, Shāfiʿī, Mālikī schools and Sufyān al-Thawrī, bloodletting does not break the fast. According to Ibn al-Musayyab, al-Shaʿbī, and al-Nakhaʿī, having bloodletting done while fasting is disliked (makrūh). According to Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, bloodletting breaks the fast; making up (qaḍāʾ) is required, but expiation (kaffāra) is not. According to ʿAṭāʾ, both making up and expiation are required. (Maʿālim al-Sunan, vol. 3, p. 242)