A woman died on the twentieth of Ramadan. Should the remaining ten days be fasted on her behalf?

Question: A woman died on the twentieth of Ramadan. Should the remaining ten days be fasted on her behalf?

Answer: Fasting is not to be done on her behalf. Whoever dies before Ramadan has finished, their deeds come to an end – and they move on to the abode of the next life.

Abu Khadeejah. See: Fatāwā ʿAlat-Tareeq fee Masā’il Mutanawwiyah of Al-ʿAllāmah Muhammad Ibn Sālih Al-ʿUthaimeen, p. 413, no. 879.