Is it valid for the father to fast sixty days as expiation for unintentional killing, knowing that he calculated them by the Gregorian calendar and not by the lunar calendar?
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What is Islamically recognized for calculating fasting and legal rulings are the lunar months. Whoever fasts two consecutive months as expiation according to solar months, it is sufficient for him, because the number of their days is not less than that of two lunar months; in fact, it may be more.
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