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Is anything other than making up that day incumbent upon someone who broke their fast in Ramadan due to a health excuse more than twenty years ago, and does not remember whether they made up that day or not?

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If someone doubts having made up an obligatory day, the original ruling is that it remains a liability upon them, and they must make it up, because a person's responsibility is not discharged except by certainty of having performed it. If the delay was without a valid excuse, then a single fidyah is obligatory (approximately 750 grams of rice or the staple food of the country), to be given to the poor.

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