What is the Maliki school's evidence for the obligation of fasting two consecutive months for whoever intentionally breaks their fast by eating or drinking in Ramadan, knowing that the other three madhhabs and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah do not consider expiation obligatory?
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The Malikis and a group of scholars, including Abu Hanifa with some exceptions, held the view that expiation (kaffara) is obligatory for every act that breaks the fast. Their argument is based on the absolute wording found in some narrations, indicating that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded expiation for whoever broke the fast. Whereas the majority of scholars believe that expiation is only obligatory for sexual intercourse, and they interpreted the absolute (mutlaq) as restricted (muqayyad).
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