I am two months pregnant and I have been vomiting during the month of Ramadaan. Sometimes the vomiting occurs shortly before Maghrib, and sometimes I feel that some of the vomit goes back into the stomach. What is the ruling on that?


Praise be to Allaah.
 

Firstly: 

There is no dispute among the scholars concerning the fact
that vomiting deliberately is one of the things that invalidate the fast,
but if a person cannot help vomiting, that does not break his fast. This was
mentioned by al-Khattaabi and Ibn al-Mundhir. See al-Mughni, 4/368. 

The evidence for that from the Sunnah is the report narrated
by al-Tirmidhi (720) from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever cannot help vomiting does
not have to make up the fast, but whoever makes himself vomit deliberately,
let him make it up.” Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh
al-Tirmidhi

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said in al-Fataawa
(25/266): With regard to vomiting, whoever makes himself vomit deliberately
has broken his fast, but if he cannot help vomiting, this does not break the
fast. 

Shaykh Ibn Baaz was asked about the ruling on one who cannot
help vomiting when he is fasting – does he have to make up that day or not?
He replied: 

He does not have to make it up, but if he made himself vomit,
then he has to make it up. And he quoted the hadeeth referred to above as
evidence. 

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen was asked in Fataawa al-Siyaam
(p. 231) whether vomiting in Ramadaan breaks the fast. He replied: 

If a person vomits deliberately, this breaks the fast, but if
it was not deliberate then this does not break the fast. The evidence for
that is the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him), and he
quoted the hadeeth referred to above. 

So if you cannot help vomiting, then you have not broken your
fast. If a person feels that his stomach is churning and what is in it is
going to come out, then do we tell him that he has to prevent it, or to make
it happen? No, but we do say: take a neutral stance. Do not try to make it
happen and do not try to prevent it, because if you make yourself vomit you
will have broken your fast, but if you try to prevent it you will harm
yourself. So leave it, and if it comes out without any action on your part,
then it will not harm you and you will not have broken your fast. 

Secondly: 

If some of the vomit goes back into the stomach without any
deliberate action on a person’s part, then his fast is valid, because this
did not happen by his choice. The Standing Committee was asked (10/254)
about a fasting person who vomited then swallowed his vomit without meaning
to – what is the ruling in this case? 

They replied: 

If he vomited deliberately then his fast is invalidated, but if he could not help it then his fast is not invalidated. Similarly it is not invalidated by his swallowing it so long as he did not do that deliberately.