Question: If an unbeliever becomes a Muslim in the day in the month of Ramadan, should he withhold from eating and drinking for the rest of the day? And should he make up that day? And should he make up the previous days of that month he has missed (while he was a non-Muslim)?
Answer: If a kāfir becomes a Muslim in the daytime, he should withhold from food and drink for the rest of the day because he is now under the obligations of Islam. He does not need to make up that day of fasting (no qadā) according to the most correct saying of the scholars. And he is not to make up the month he has not fasted thus far (since he was not a Muslim).
Abu Khadeejah. See: Fatāwā ʿAlat-Tareeq fee Masā’il Mutanawwiyah of Al-ʿAllāmah Muhammad Ibn Sālih Al-ʿUthaimeen, p. 409, no. 868.
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