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Nafl and sunnah are technically synonyms. Nafl نَفْلٌ (singular نَافِلَة) in Arabic refers to something optional, or anything which is done as an addition of that what one should do. While sunnah -whe …

When it comes to acts of worship like prayer and fasts which are either performed as obligatory/fard or optional/nafl/sunnah acts. There certainly might be some slight differences in the practice, but …

First of all your post lacks some necessary information to answer it correctly, so you could conclude your answer from the following: You should know if you know the ruling and you despite this know …

It seems at your location you can't hear the adhan. So basically you might have unintentionally continued eating while you should have stopped. So far if there was any mistake or breaking of fast it …

The matter of fast is simple, if you had in mind to fast the following day before you went to bed. You made an intention. Eating or doing suhur has no relation to the validity of fast. It is only a re …

The fast of the white days أيام البيض is basically a specific case of fasting 3 days each months (See for example in Sahih al-Bukhari and the addition of an-Nasa-i in his Sunan adding the white days) …

Imam al-Bukhari has put a statement of ibn 'Abbas (which is not translated on sunnah.com as it is not a hadith he would rely on) saying: وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لاَ بَأْسَ أَنْ يَتَطَعَّمَ الْقِدْر …

Missing suhur is not a reason for not fasting as it is basically your fault. If you nevertheless ate you need to do expiation for voluntary breaking the fast, unless you have a valid reason or for exa …

On what basis do you want to skip fast? Distance of your journey trip? The distance is much to short to even shorten the prayer (most sunni madhhabs require a traveling distance of > 80 kilometers, …

Saying "Bismillah بسم الله " is not mandatory, but among the sunan of eating. This is based on: "When one of you eats food, then let him say: 'Bismillah.' If he forgets in the beginning, then let him …

The short answer is no you are not allowed not to fast. Most scholars (Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali, see also this fatwa) say that one should do the niyyah (for Ramadan fasting) during the night (before f …

First of all if you fasted in Ramadan without a niyah your fast is invalid. However the hanafis deviate here from the majority and say it is allowed to delay the niyah until the time of doha in Ramada …

This is a matter of niyyah (intention). If you made the intention to fast Ramadan at the beginning of the month there shouldn't be an issue (not all madhhabs regard this as acceptable). But if you mad …

Note that for the cases you've mentioned the view of different schools of fiqh my deviate from what I found in fatwas. Swallowing lip balm while fasting The view of scholars such as ibn Baz, ibn 'Utha …

Replacing one day of fast of Ramadan or making up for Ramadan (obligatory fast) if one has broken his fast due to a valid reason actually is covered in the qur'an in (2:184). But if one had interc …