Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) narrates that elderly men and elderly women, who had the ability to fast, were permitted that if they wished, they could refrain from fasting and feed a poor person for each day, and making up the fast was not obligatory upon them. Then this ruling was abrogated by the verse:“So whoever among you witnesses the month, let him fast it”(Al-Baqarah: 185). Now this permission is only for those elderly men and women who do not have the ability to fast, and for pregnant and breastfeeding women, if they fear for their child, then they may refrain from fasting and feed a poor person for each day.