Is the reward for breaking a fasting person's fast achieved by giving the fasting person food, or by breaking their fast with one's own hand?
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The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, encouraged feeding a fasting person by saying: "Whoever feeds a fasting person will have a reward like theirs, without diminishing the reward of the fasting person in the slightest." The meaning of "feeds a fasting person" is to provide them with food at the time of their breaking the fast, whether by giving them food or inviting them for .
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