Enemas and suppositories while fasting

A question about enemas and suppositories while fasting, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that enemas and suppositories in either passage break the fast, and that someone who needs them uses them, keeps refraining and makes the day up. ¹

The questioner asked whether using suppositories and enemas affects the validity of the fast. ¹

The Department answered that enemas or suppositories in either passage are among the things that break the fast. ¹ It relied on a report from Ibn Abbas, transmitted by al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-Kubra, that breaking the fast comes from what enters the body, not from what leaves it, and said its general wording shows that whatever enters breaks the fast, whether it is food or not. ¹ It said they should be used before dawn or after breaking the fast; if someone needs one during the day, he uses it, keeps refraining from food and drink, and makes that day up. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4144, dated 1 February 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.