Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 241:4

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> א"ר אמי בדליקה התירו לומר כל המכבה אינו מפסיד נימא מסייע ליה נכרי שבא לכבות אין אומרים לו כבה ואל תכבה מפני שאין שביתתו עליהן כבה הוא דלא אמרינן ליה הא כל המכבה אינו מפסיד אמרינן ליה אימא סיפא אל תכבה לא אמרינן ליה וכל המכבה אינו מפסיד נמי לא אמרינן ליה אלא מהא ליכא למשמע מינה

— [The author of] that is R. Jose son of R. Judah who maintained: [One] tebillah at the end suffices for her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to a woman who gave birth without knowing exactly when, what, and whether it was with or without a gonorrhoeic discharge. The first view is that all possibilities must be taken into account and she must perform tebillah at the due times posited by these. R. Jose b. R. Judah, however, rules that a single tebillah, performed at the end of the whole period that is in doubt, is sufficient, though actually the right time may have been earlier, for in any case tebillah at the time when it becomes due is not obligatory. ');">⁹</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF A GENTILE COMES TO EXTINGUISH, WE DO NOT SAY TO HIM, 'EXTINGUISH IT' OR 'DO NOT EXTINGUISH,' BECAUSE HIS RESTING IS NOT OUR OBLIGATION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'their obligation'. It is not the duty of Israelites to see that he rests on the Sabbath, hence we need not forbid him. On the other hand by Rabbinical law one must not instruct a Gentile to work — hence we may not tell him to extinguish the fire. ');">¹⁰</span> BUT IF A MINOR COMES TO EXTINGUISH, WE MUST NOT PERMIT HIM,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'we do not hearken to him'. ');">¹¹</span>

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