Fidya & Kaffāra

Fidya & Kaffāra Calculator

Work out the expiation you owe: fidya for fasts you cannot make up, or kaffāra for deliberately breaking a fast or a broken oath — with the correct counts and the fiqh order. Computed in your browser.

What are you expiating?

For fasts that cannot be made up (chronic illness, old age): feed one needy person per missed day.

Missed fast-days

Cost of feeding

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Cost to feed one needy person

One meal / one mudd (≈750 g) of the local staple, valued where you live.

What you owe

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An educational aid, not a fatwa

Amounts and some cases (e.g. pregnancy/nursing, delayed make-up) differ between scholars. Use this to estimate, and consult a scholar for your situation.

Method & sources

Fidya for missed fasts: Qurʾān 2:184 (feed a needy person per day). Broken-fast kaffāra: ḥadīth of the man who broke his Ramadan fast — free a slave → fast 60 consecutive days → feed 60 (al-Bukhārī 1936, Muslim 1111). Oath kaffāra: feed/clothe 10 or free a slave, else fast 3 days (Qurʾān 5:89).

Qurʾān · al-Baqara 2:184↗

Fidya for those who can fast only with hardship — feed a needy person for each missed day («wa ʿalā alladhīna yuṭīqūnahu fidyatun ṭaʿāmu miskīn»).

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1936↗

The man who broke his Ramadan fast — the kaffāra ladder: free a slave → fast two consecutive months → feed sixty needy persons.

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1111↗

The same incident in Muslim, confirming the broken-fast kaffāra.

Qurʾān · al-Māʾida 5:89↗

Expiation for a broken oath: feed or clothe ten needy persons, or free a slave; whoever cannot, fasts three days.