What is the ruling on injections into a muscle or a vein?
2026-10-13
F144 · Selected fatwas
Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn
الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين
Original Q&A · Full displayed answer
Read the nutritional exception together with the permission. The answer does not classify every contemporary treatment by name; it distinguishes ordinary injections from those that replace food and drink.
النص العربي
السؤال الأصلي
فضيلة الشيخ، ما حكم حقن الإبر في العضل وفي الوريد؟
الجواب
حقن الإبر في الوريد والعضل والورك ليس فيه بأس، ولا يفطر به الصائم؛ لأن هذا ليس من المفطرات ولا بمعنى المفطرات، فهو ليس بأكل ولا شرب، ولا بمعنى الأكل والشرب، وقد سبق أن قلنا أن ذلك لا يؤثر، وإنما المؤثر حقن المريض بما يغني عن الأكل والشرب.
English translation
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Original question
Esteemed Shaykh, what is the ruling on injections into a muscle or a vein?
Answer
There is no objection to injections into a vein, muscle, or hip, and they do not invalidate a fasting person’s fast. They are neither among the things that invalidate fasting nor equivalent to them: they are neither eating nor drinking nor equivalent to eating and drinking. We have already said that this does not affect the fast. What does affect it is injecting the patient with something that replaces food and drink.
Source and editorial notes
Fiqh al-ʿIbādāt, 13th edition, 1441 AH, question 158, p.246
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Fiqh al-ʿIbādāt
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