Does the fast become invalidated for someone who, while sniffing water during ablution, gets a drop of water into his pharynx and then quickly expels it?
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Water reaching the throat during rinsing the mouth and nose, unintentionally, does not invalidate the fast, even if it certainly reached. And it is even more so that the fast is not invalidated when there is doubt about it reaching.
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