Fasting: Missed Suḥūr, Broke Fast Later — Is Single or Double Kaffārah Required?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Fasting: Missed Suḥūr, Broke Fast Later — Is Single or Double Kaffārah Required?

English:

Question #816:

Fasting in Ramadan, a person did not wake up one day to eat the meal taken before the dawn. Therefore, he could not continue fasting until sunset. During the day, something happened which forced him to break his fast. Does he have to give the single or the twofold kaffārah?

Answer #816:

If he keeps the fast and breaks it only when it becomes — due to hunger and thirst — unbearably hard for him to continue, he has only to perform qaḍā’ of the fast and no kaffārah is required.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Fasting