SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6: FASTING Hadith Number 2361

Chapter: Excellence of the month of Ramadan Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: When there comes the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained.

Hadith Number 2362

Chapter: Excellence of the month of Ramadan This Hadith is reported by Abu Huraira (with a slight alteration of words) that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: “When (the month of) Ramadan begins.”

Hadith Number 2363

Hadith Number 2364

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. Ibn Umar reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) made a mention of Ramadan and he with the gesture of his hand said: The month is thus and thus. (He then withdrew his thumb at the third time). He then said: Fast when you see it, and break your fast when you see it, and if the weather is cloudy calculate it (the months of Sha’ban and Shawwal) as thirty days.

Hadith Number 2365

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. This Hadith is narrated on the authority of ‘Ubaidullah with the same chain of transmitters, and he said: If (the sky) is cloudy for you, then calculate thirty days (for the month of Ramadan).

Hadith Number 2366

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. ‘Ubaidullah narrated on the authority of the same chain of transmitters that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) made a mention of Ramadan and said: The month may consist of twenty-nine days, and it may be thus, thus and thus, and (he further) said: Calculate it, but he did not say thirty.

Hadith Number 2367

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. Ibn’Umar (Allah be pleased with-both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The month of Ramadan may consist of twenty-nine days. So do not fast till you have sighted it (the new moon) and do not breakfast, till you have sighted it (the new moon of Shawwal), and if the sky is cloudy for you, then calculate.

Hadith Number 2368

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The month (of Ramadan) may consist of twenty-nine days; so when you see the new moon observe fast and when you see (the new moon again at the commencement of the month of Shawwal) then break it, and if the sky is cloudy for you, then calculate it (and complete thirty days).

Hadith Number 2369

Hadith Number 2370

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The month may consist of twenty-nine nights. So do not fast till you have sighted it (the new moon) and do not break it till you have sighted it, except when the sky is cloudy for you, and if it is so, then calculate it.

Hadith Number 2371

Hadith Number 2372

Hadith Number 2373

Hadith Number 2374

Hadith Number 2375

Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days. Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The month (of Ramadan) may consist of twenty-nine days, and Shu’ba (one of the narrators) (gave a practical demonstration how the Holy prophet (may peace be upon him) explained to them) by unfolding his hands thrice and folding his thumb at the third turn. ‘Uqba (one of the narrators in this chain of transmitters) said: I think that he said that the month consists of thirty days and unfolded his palm three times.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2376.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Ibn ‘Umar(may Allah be pleased with both of them)reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: We are an unlettered people who can neither write nor count. The month is thus, and thus, folding his thumb when he said it the third time. This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Aswad b. Qais with the same chain of transmitters, but herein no mention has been made of the other month (consisting of) thirty days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2377.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Sa’d b. ‘Ubaida reported that Ibn ‘Umar(Allah be pleased with both of them) heard a person saying: This night is the midnight (of the month). Upon this he said to him: How do you know that it is the midnight (of the month), for I heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) as saying: The month is thus and thus (and he pointed with his ten fingers twice) and thus (i.e. at the third time he pointed with all his fingers but withdrew or folded his thumb)?

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2378.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Whenever you sight the new moon (of the month of Ramadan) observe fast. and when you sight it (the new moon of Shawwal) break it, and if the sky is cloudy for you, then observe fast for thirty days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2379.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break (fast) on sighting it (the new moon), but if the sky is cloudy for you, then complete the number (of thirty).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2380.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break it on sighting it. But if (due to clouds) the actual position of the month is concealed from you, you should then count thirty (days).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2381.
Chapter: Fasting in Ramadan should necessarily be commenced with the sight of the new moon and finished with the sight of the new moon. If the weather is cloudy at the beginning or at the end, then complete thirty days.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him) made a mention of the new moon and (in this connection) said: Observe fast when you see it (the new moon) and breakfast when you see it (the new moon of Shawwal), but when (the actual position of the month is) concealed from you (on account of cloudy sky), then count thirty days.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2382.
Chapter: Do not fast for a day or two days ahead of Ramadan.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him)as saying: Do not observe fast for a day, or two days ahead of Ramadan except a person who is in the habit of observing a particular fast; he may fast on that day.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2383.
Chapter: Do not fast for a day or two days ahead of Ramadan.
This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Abi Kathir with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2384.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Zuhri reported that (once) the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) took an oath that he would not go to his wives for one Month. Zuhri said that ‘Urwa narrated to him from ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) that she said: When twenty-nine nights were over, which I had counted, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) came to me (he came to me first of all). I said: Messenger of Allah, you had taken an oath that you would not come to us for a month, whereas you have come after twenty nine days which I have counted. Whereupon he said: The month may also consist of twenty-nine days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2385.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Jabir (Allah be pleased with her) narrated that the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) separated himself from his wives for a month. (His wives said:) He came to us on the twenty-ninth day, whereupon we said: It is the twenty-ninth (day) today. Thereupon he said: So far as the month is concerned, (and he, with a view to explaining it) flapped his hands thrice, but held back one finger at the last turn.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2386.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Abu Zubair is reported to have heard Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with both of them) as saying: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) separated himself from his wives for a month. (His wives said:) He came to us on the morning of the twentyninth. Upon this some, of the people said: It is the morning of twenty-ninth (according to our calculation). Upon this the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The month may also consist of twenty-nine days. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) then flapped his bands thrice, twice with all the fingers of both his hand (to indicate twenty-nine) and by the third time with nine (fingers).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2387.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Umm Salama (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) took an oath that he would not go to some of his wives for the whole of the month. When twenty-nine days bad passed he (the Holy Prophet) went to them in the morning or in the evening. Upon this it was said to him: Apostle of Allah, you took an oath that you would not come to us for a month, whereupon he said: The month may also consist of twenty-nine days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2388.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2389.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Sa’d b. Abi Waqqas (Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) struck his hand against the other and (then with the gesture of his two hands) said: The month is thus, thus (two times). He then withdrew (one of) his fingers at the third turn.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2390.
Chapter: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.
Muhammad b. Sa’d reported on the authority of his father (Sa’d b. Abi Waqqas (Allah be pleased with him) that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: Two month is thus and thus, and thus, i.e. ten, ten and nine. This Hadith has been narrated by Abu Khalid with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2391.
Chapter: There is a sighting of the moon for every town; the sighting at one town cannot be held valid for the other town situated at a considerable distance from it.
Kuraib reported that Umm Fadl, daughter of Harith, sent him (Fadl, i.e. her son) to Mu’awiya in Syria. I (Fadl) arrived in Syria, and did the needful for her. It was there in Syria that the month of Ramadan commenced. I saw the new moon (of Ramadan) on Friday. I then came back to Medina at the end of the month. Abdullah b. ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) asked me (about the new moon of Ramadan) and said: When did you see it? I said: We saw it on the night of Friday. He said: (Did) you see it yourself? I said: Yes, and the people also saw it and they observed fast and Mu’awiya also observed fast, whereupon he said: But we saw it on Saturday night. So we would continue to observe fast till we complete thirty (lasts) or we see it (the new moon of Shawwal). I said: Is the sighting of the moon by Mu’awiya not valid for you? He said: No; this is how the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) has commanded us. Yahya b. Yahya was in doubt (whether the word used in the narration by Kuraib) was Naktafi or Taktafi.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2392.
Chapter: It is immaterial whether the new moon is large (on account of appearing after thirty nights) or small (on account of appearing on the thirtieth night): and Allah defers it to make it suitable for sighting and if the sky is cloudy, then thirty (fasts) are to be completed.
Abu’l-Bakhtari reported: We went out to perform Umra and when we encamped in the valley of Nakhla, we tried to see the new moon. Some of the people said: It was three nights old, and others (said) that it was two nights old. We then met Ibn ‘Abbas and told him we had seen the new moon, but that some of the people said it was three nights old and others that it was two nights old. He asked on which night we had seen it; and when we told him we had seen it on such and such night, he said the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: Verily Allah deferred it till the time it is seen, so it is to be reckoned from the night you saw it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2393.
Chapter: It is immaterial whether the new moon is large (on account of appearing after thirty nights) or small (on account of appearing on the thirtieth night): and Allah defers it to make it suitable for sighting and if the sky is cloudy, then thirty (fasts) are to be completed.
Abu’l-Bakhtari reported: We saw the new moon of Ramadan as we were at Dhit-i-‘Irq. We sent a man to Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) to ask him (whether the sighting of a small moon had something of the nature of defect in it). Upon this Ibn Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: Verily Allah deferred its sight, but if (the new moon) is hidden from you, then complete its number (thirty).

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2394.
Chapter: The months of Id are not incomplete.
The son of Abu Bakra reported it on the authority of his father that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: The two months of ‘Id, Ramadan and Dhu’l-Hijja (are not incomplete).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2395.
Chapter: The months of Id are not incomplete.
‘Abd Ar-Rahman b. Abu Bakra reported on the authority of Abu Bakra that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: The months of ‘Id are not incomplete. And in the Hadith narrated by Khalid (the words are): “The months, of ‘Id are Ramadan and Dhu’l-Hijja.”

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2396.
Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.
‘Adi b. Hatim (Allah be pleased with him) reported that when (this verse) was revealed: “Until the white streak of the dawn becomes distinct from the dark streak” (ii. 187) Adi b. Hatim said: Messenger of Allah, verily I keep underneath my pillow two strings, one white and the other black, by which I distinguish night from dawn. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Your pillow seems to be very large. For the word khait implies the blackness of the night and the whiteness of the dawn.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2397.
Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.
Sahl b. Sa’d said that when this verse was revealed: “Eat and drink till the white streak is distinct from the dark streak,” a person would take hold of a white thread and a black thread and keep on eating till he could find them distinct (in the light of the dawn). It was then that Allah, the Majestic and Great, revealed (the words) min al-fajr (from the dawn), and then it became clear (that the word khait refers to the streak of light in the dawn).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2398.
Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.
Sahl b. Sa’d (Allah be pleased with him) said: When this verse was revealed. “Eat and drink till the white streak becomes distinct from the dark streak for you,” the person who decided to observe fast tied on one of his feet a black thread and on the other a white thread. And he went on eating and drinking till he could distinguish (between their colour) on seeing them. It was after this that Allah revealed (the words): min al-fajr. And they (the Muslims) came to know that (the word khait) refers to the night and day.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2399.
Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.
‘Abdullah b. Mas’ud (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: Bilal would pronounce Adhan (at the fag end of the night in order to inform the people about the time of the Sahri). So you eat and drink till you hear the Adhan of Ibn Umm Maktum (which was pronounced at the conclusion of the Sahri and the commencement of the fast).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2400.
Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.
Abdullah b. ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) as saying: Bilal announces Adhan during the night, so you eat and drink, till you hear the Adhan of Ibn Umm Maktum.

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Hadith Number 2401

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had two Mu’adhdhins, Bilal and son of Umm Maktum, the blind. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Bilal announces Adhan at (the fag end of the) night (i.e. Sahri), so eat and drink till the son of Umm Maktum announces Adhan. And he (the narrator) said: And the (difference of time) between their (Adhans) was not more than this that one climbed down (from the minaret) and the other climbed up (to announce Adhan).

Hadith Number 2402

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

A Hadith like this has been transmitted on the authority of ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her).

Hadith Number 2403

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of ‘Ubaidullah on the two chains of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2404

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Ibn Mas’ud (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The Adhan of Bilal should not restrain anyone among you from eating Sahur (last meal before daybreak during the month of Ramadan) for he announces Adhan (or he calls) at (the fag end of) the night to make him turn who stands for prayer among you, and to awaken those who are sleeping among you. And he said: The dawn is not like it, as one says (and he lifted his hand) till he (dispersed his fingers) and said: It is like this.

Hadith Number 2405

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

This Hadith has been narrated by Sulaiman al-Taimi with the same chain of transmitters (but with a slight variation of words) that he (the Holy Prophet) said: The dawn is not like it as it is said; he then gathered his fingers and lowered them. But he said, it is like this (and he placed the index finger upon the other one and spread his hand).

Hadith Number 2406

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sulaiman Taimi with the same chain of transmitters and, at the end, it was said that the first Adhan was meant to awaken those who were in slumber amongst them and in order to make them turn who stand in (prayer) among them (towards food at the commencement of the fast). Jarir (one of the narrators) said that the Messenger (may peace be upon him) did not say like this but he said like it (true dawn) that the streaks of (true dawn) are horizontal and not vertical.

Hadith Number 2407

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Samura b. Jandub reported Muhammad (may peace be upon him) as saying: The call of Bilal may not mislead any one of you (and he may, under the wrong impression gathered from it, refrain) from taking meal before the commencement of the fast (for the streaks) of this whiteness (which are vertical indicate the false dawn and the true dawn with which the fast commences is that when the streaks of light are) spread.

Hadith Number 2408

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Samura b. Jundub reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The Adhan of Bilal should not mislead you nor the whiteness (of the pillar) of dawn, for it is not the whiteness of the true dawn, but that of the false dawn which is vertical like a pillar and you can eat food till the streaks of whiteness spread like it.

Hadith Number 2409

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Samura b. Jundub (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The Adhan of Bilal may not mislead you with regard to your food at the commencement of the fast, nor the vertical (streaks) of whiteness in the horizon (for it is an indication of false dawn). You should stop eating (food) till (the whiteness) spreads like it. Hammad narrated it and with the gesture of his band he explained the horizontal position (of the streaks of light).

Hadith Number 2410

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

Samura b. Jundub addressed and narrated from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) having said (these words): Neither the call of Bilal should mislead you nor this whiteness (of false dawn) till (the true) dawn appears (or he said) till the dawn breaks.

Hadith Number 2411

Chapter: The timing of fast begins with the dawn.

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Samura b. Jundub.

Hadith Number 2412

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Take meal a little before dawn, for there is a blessing in taking meal at that time.

Hadith Number 2413

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

‘Amr b. al-‘As reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The difference between our fasting and that of the people of the Book is eating shortly before dawn.

Hadith Number 2414

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Musa b. ‘Ali has narrated this Hadith through the same chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2415

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Anas b. Malik reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Eat something (to fill your stomach) before the dawn comes.

Hadith Number 2416

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

This Hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2417

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

‘Amr b. al-‘As reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The distinction between our fasting and that of the people of the Book is eating shortly before dawn.

Hadith Number 2418

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The most excellent fast is that one observes when one detains (in taking) his Sahur and hastens in breaking the fast.

Hadith Number 2419

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

This Hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2420

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The most excellent fast is that one observes when one detains (in taking) his Sahur and hastens in breaking the fast. In another narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (the words are): “You should observe fast till there appears (the whiteness) in the sky and do not observe fast till there appears (the whiteness) in the sky, but observe fast till there appears (the whiteness) in the sky and do not observe fast till it appears from them.”

Hadith Number 2421

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The distinguishing (practice) of fasting is the taking of a meal (Sahur) before dawn.

Hadith Number 2422

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The distinguishing (practices) of the Jews are five and four (of these): circumcision, shaving of the pubes, cutting the moustaches short and clipping the nails. Ibn Shihab (the narrator) said: Al-Hasan transmitted it to me, but he made no mention of the words of Rafi’.

Hadith Number 2423

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: We observed fast with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) on the day of ‘Ashura’ and we observed fast on the day when ‘Arafat was (to be observed). Thereupon, some of the young men said: We find that we are in a state of fasting on the day of ‘Ashura’, we also fast on the day when ‘Arafat is (to be observed), and (in this way) we disobey the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: It is the day of ‘Ashura’ and you should fast on it.

Hadith Number 2424

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: We observed fast on the day of ‘Ashura’ and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) also observed fast. We were about to overstep him. Thereupon he said: I apprehend that you may resemble the people (Jews and Christians) who preceded you and observed fast on this day, and thus you should observe fast on the next day.

Hadith Number 2425

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa’id through another chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2426

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: We observed fast on the day of ‘Ashura’ and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) also observed fast on it. We were about to overstep him. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: We should also observe fast on the day of ‘Ashura’.

Hadith Number 2427

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to take a meal (before the fast) and he would also break it (after the fast). Abu Bakr said to him: Messenger of Allah, (sometimes) you undertake fast, then you do not observe it, (sometimes) you do not fast, then you observe it, and (sometimes) you fast along with us. He (the Holy Prophet) said: I am not like you. When you observe fast, it happens so (because you have a mind to fast), and when you break it, it happens so (because you have a mind to break it), but I observe fast (when it comes to me) and I do not observe it (when it does not come to me), and sometimes the day comes to me when I observe fast and break it (on the same day). He (the narrator) said: This hadith is being narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik with another chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2428

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The distinguishing practice of the people of Islam is that they take meal (Sahur) before dawn.

Hadith Number 2429

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Hadith Number 2430

Chapter: Excellence of taking meal before dawn, stress on giving It preference and preference for deferring it (at the fag end of the night) and hastening in breaking it.

Anas b. Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) took a meal (Sahur) with us and then led us in prayer and mounted (his ride) when it was dark till it became intensely dark. He then stood up and then observed the fast.

These hadiths offer a rich set of teachings related to the significance of taking a meal before dawn (Sahur), the preference to hasten in breaking the fast, and other related practices during fasting. These teachings encapsulate several virtues, including moderation, observance of tradition, and distinguishing oneself from other communities.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Hadith Number 2431.

Chapter: It is forbidden to observe uninterrupted fasting. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying (the words as said in the previous Hadith) but with this alteration (of words): “Take upon yourselves (the burden of the deeds) for which you have the strength to bear.”

Hadith Number 2432.

Chapter: It is forbidden to observe uninterrupted fasting. Abu Huraira reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade (his Companions) to observe Saum Wisal.

Hadith Number 2433.

Chapter: It is forbidden to observe uninterrupted fasting. Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was observing prayer during Ramadan. I came and stood by his side. Then another man came and he stood likewise till we became a group. When the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) perceived that we were behind him, he lightened the prayer. He then went to his abode and observed such (a long) prayer (the like of which) he never observed with us. When it was morning we said to him: Did you perceive us during the night? Upon this he said: Yes, it was this (realisation) that induced me to do that which I did. He (the narrator) said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) began to observe Saum Wisal at the end of the month (of Ramadan), and some persons among his Companions began to observe this uninterrupted fast, whereupon the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: What about such persons who observe uninterrupted fasts? You are not like me. By Allah. if the month were lengthened for me, I would have observed Saum Wisal, so that those who act with an exaggeration would (have been obliged) to abandon their exaggeration.

Hadith Number 2434.

Chapter: It is forbidden to observe uninterrupted fasting. Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed Saum Wisal during the early part of the month of Ramadan. The people among Muslims also observed uninterrupted fast. This (news) reached him (the Holy Prophet) and he said: Had the month been lengthened for me I would have continued observing Saum Wisal, so that those who act with forced hardness would (have been obliged) to abandon it. You are not like me (or he said): I am not like you. I continue to do so (in a state) that my Lord feeds me and provides me drink.

Hadith Number 2435.

Chapter: It is forbidden to observe uninterrupted fasting. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) said: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade them (his Companions) to observe Saum Wisal out of mercy for them. They said: You (Holy Prophet) yourself observe it. Upon this he said: I am not like you. My Lord feeds me and provides me drink.

Hadith Number 2436.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) kissed one of his wives while he was fasting, and then she (‘Aisha) smiled (as she narrated).

Hadith Number 2437.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. Sufyan reported: I said to ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Qasim: Have you heard from your father narrating from ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) that he kissed her while observing fast? He (‘Abd al-Rahman b. Qasim) kept silence for a short while and then said: “Yes.”

Hadith Number 2438.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to kiss me while observing fast; and who among you can control his desire as the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) could control his desire.

Hadith Number 2439.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to kiss (his wives) while fasting and embraced (them) while fasting; but he had the greatest mastery over his desire among you.

Hadith Number 2440.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to kiss (his wives) while fasting; and he had the greatest control over his desire (as compared with you).

Hadith Number 2441.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to embrace (his wives) while fasting.

Hadith Number 2442.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. Aswad reported: I and Masruq went to ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) and asked her if the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) embraced (his wives) while fasting. She said: Yes; but he had the greatest control over his desire among you: or he was one of those who had control over his desire. It is further narrated on the authority of Aswad and Masruq that they went to the Mother of the Believers and they asked her (and the rest of the Hadith is the same)

Hadith Number 2443.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Urwa b. Zubair narrated that ‘Aisha the Mother of the Believers (Allah be pleased with her) informed him that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) kissed her while fasting.

Hadith Number 2444.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. A Hadith like this has been narrated by Yahya b. Abu Kathir with the same chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2445.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to kiss her during the month of fasting.

Hadith Number 2446.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) kissed (his wives) during Ramadan while observing fast.

Hadith Number 2447.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah’s Apostle (peace be upon him) kissed (his wives) while fasting.

Hadith Number 2448.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. Hafsa (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) kissed (his wives) while fasting.

Hadith Number 2449.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. A Hadith like this has been narrated by Hafsa (Allah be pleased with her) through another chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2450.

Chapter: Kissing is not forbidden while fasting if one is not urged by sexual lust. Umar b Abu Salama reported that he asked the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him): Should one observing fast kiss (his wife)? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to him: Ask her (Umm Salama). She informed him that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) did that, whereupon he said: Messenger of Allah, Allah pardoned thee all thy sins, the previous and the later ones. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)) said: By Allah, I am the most God conscious among you and I fear Him most among you.

Hadith Number 2451.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. Abu Bakr (he is Abu Bakr b. Abd al-Rahman b. Harith) reported: I heard Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) narrating that he who is overtaken by dawn in a state of seminal emission should not observe fast. I made a mention of it to ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Harith (i.e. to his father) but he denied it. ‘Abd al-Rahman went and I also went along with him till we came to ‘Aisha and Umm Salama (Allah be pleased with both of them) and Abd al-Rahman asked them about it. Both of them said: (At times it so happened) that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) woke up in the morning in a state of junub (but without seminal emission in a dream) and observed fast He (the narrator) said: We then proceeded till we went to Marwan and Abd al-Rahman made a mention of it to him. Upon this Marwan said: I stress upon you (with an oath) that you better go to Abu Huraira and refer to him what is said about it. So we came to Abu Huraira and Abu Bakr had been with us throughout and ‘Abd al-Rahman made a mention of it to him, whereupon Abu Huraira said: Did they (the two wives of the Holy Prophet) tell you this? He replied: Yes Upon this (Abu Huraira) said: They have better knowledge. Abu Huraira then attributed that what was said about it to Fadl b. ‘Abbas and said: I heard it from Fadl and not from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him). Abu Huraira then retracted from what he used to say about it. Ibn Juraij (one of the narrators) reported: I asked ‘Abd al-Malik, if they (the two wives) said (made the statement) in regard to Ramadan, whereupon he said: It was so, and he (the Holy Prophet) (woke up in the) morning in a state of junub which was not due to the wet dream and then observed fast.

Hadith Number 2452.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. ‘Aisha, the wife of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), said: The dawn broke upon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) during the Ramadan in a state of junub not because of sexual dream (but on account of intercourse) and he washed himself and observed fast.

Hadith Number 2453.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. Abu Bakr reported that Marwan sent him to Umm Salama to ask whether a person should observe fast who is in a state of junub and the dawn breaks upon him, whereupon she said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) (was at times) junbi on account of intercourse and not due to sexual dream, and the dawn broke upon him, but he neither broke the fast nor recompensed.

Hadith Number 2454.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. Abu Bakr b. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. al-Harith b. Hisham reported on the authority of ‘Aisha and Umm Salama, the wives of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him): The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) at times got up in the morning in a state of junub on account of having a sexual intercourse (with his wives during night) but not due to sexual dreams in the month of Ramadan, and would observe fast.

Hadith Number 2455.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. ‘Aisha reported that a person came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) asking for a fatwa (religious verdict). She (‘Aisha) had been overhearing it from behind the curtain. ‘Aisha added that he (the person) had said: Messenger of Allah, (the time) of prayer overtakes me as I am in a state of junub; should I observe fast (in this state)? Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: (At times the time) of prayer overtakes me while I am in a state of junub, and I observe fast (in that very state), whereupon he said: Messenger of Allah, you are not like us Allah has pardoned all your sins, the previous ones and the later ones. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: By Allah, I hope I am the most God-fearing of you, and possess the best knowledge among you of those (things) against which I should guard.

Hadith Number 2456.

Chapter: There is no harm in observing fast if one is Junbi even after dawn. Sulaiman b. Yasar reported that he asked Umm Salama whether a person (who gets up) in the morning in a state of junub should observe fast. She said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) (at times) got up in the morning in a state of junub, not because of sexual dreams (but on account of intercourse at night), and then observed fast.

Hadith Number 2457.

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadhan. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that a person came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah, I am undone. He (the Holy Prophet) said: What has brought about your ruin? He said: I have had intercourse with my wife during the month of Ramadan. Upon this he (the Holy prophet) said: Can you find a slave to set him free? He said: NO He (the Holy Prophet again) said: Can you observe fast for two consecutive months? He said: No. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Can you provide food to sixty poor people?, He said: No. He then sat down and (in the meanwhile) there was brought to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) a basket which contained dates. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Give these (dates) in charity. He (the man) said: Am I to give to one who is poorer than I? There is no family poorer than mine between the two lava plains of Medina. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) laughed so that his molar teeth became visible and said: Go and give it to your family to eat.

Hadith Number 2458.

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadhan. A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Muhammad b. Muslim al-Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters, and he said: There was brought an ‘araq containing dates, an ‘araq being a huge basket. But in this Hadith no mention has been made of (the fact) that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) laughed till his molar teeth became visible.

Hadith Number 2459.

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadhan. Abu Huraira reported that a person had intercourse with his wife during Ramadan (while fasting). He asked for the religious verdict (about it) from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Can you find a slave (to grant him freedom)? He said: No. He (the Holy Prophet again) said: Can you afford to observe fasts for two (consecutive) months? He said: No. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Then feed sixty poor men.

Hadith Number 2460.

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadhan. This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters that a person broke fast in Ramadan whereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded him to free a slave (as an atonement), and the rest of the Hadith is the same as narrated by Ibn Uyaina.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Hadith Number 2461

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadan.

Humaid b. ‘Abd al-Rahman reported that Abu Huraira had narrated to him that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded the person (who) broke the fast in Ramadan to free a slave or observe fasts for two (consecutive) months or feed sixty poor persons.

Hadith Number 2462

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadan.

This Hadith has been narrated with the same chain of transmitters on the authority of Zuhri.

Hadith Number 2463

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadan.

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that a person came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: I am burnt, whereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: How is it? He (the person) said: I had intercourse with my wife during the day in Ramadan. Upon this (the Holy Prophet) said: Give charity, give charity. He (the person) said: There is nothing with me. He commanded him to sit down, (In the meanwhile) there were brought to him (to the Holy Prophet) two baskets containing eatables, whereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) told him to give them as sadaqa.

Hadith Number 2464

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadan.

‘Abbad b. Abdullah b. Zubair narrated that he heard ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) saying: A person came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), and he then narrated the Hadith. But (neither these words are found):”Give charity, give charity” (nor) his words: “during the day time”.

Hadith Number 2465

Chapter: Sexual Intercourse is completely forbidden during the day in the month of Ramadan.

Abbad b. Abdullah b. Zubair reported that he had heard ‘Aisha, the wife of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), as saying: A person came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in the mosque during (the month of) Ramadan and said: Messenger of Allah, I am burnt I am burnt, whereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) asked him as to what the matter was. Upon this he said: I had intercourse with my wife (in a state of fasting) Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Give charity. Upon this he said: Apostle of Allah, I swear by God, there is nothing with me (to give in charity) as I do not possess anything. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Sit down. So he sat down and he was in this very state when there came a person urging a donkey with a load of eatables upon it. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Where is that burnt one who was just here? Thereupon the person stood up. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Give this (eatables brought by the man) in charity. Upon this the person said: Messenger of Allah, can there be anyone else (more deserving than I)? By Allah, we are hungry, we have nothing with us. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: Then eat (these eatables).

Hadith Number 2466

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) went out during the month of Ramadan in the year of Victory (when Mecca was conquered) and was fasting till he reached Kadid (a canal situated at a distance of forty-two miles from Mecca) and he then broke the fast. And it was the habit of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) to follow him in every new thing (or act). So they followed him also (in this matter).

Hadith Number 2467

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

This Hadith is narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters. Yahya (one of the narrators) said that Sufyan (the narrator) had stated: I do not know whose statement it is: “It is the last word of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) which is accepted as (final as it abrogates the previous ones).”

Hadith Number 2468

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

It has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters that breaking of fast (in a journey) is the final of the two commands (whether one may fast or one may break it), and it is the last command of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) which is to be accepted as final. Zuhri said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) marched on Mecca on the morning of 14th of Ramadan (lit when thirteen nights had passed).

Hadith Number 2469

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

A Hadith like this has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Shibab who said that they (the Companions of the Holy Prophet) followed the latest of his commands and looked upon it as one abrogating (the previous ones) and the most firm.

Hadith Number 2470

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) journeyed during the month of Ramadan in a slate of fasting till he reached ‘Usfan. He then ordered a cup containing drinking water and he drank that openly so that the people might see it, and broke the fast (and did not resume it) till he reached Mecca. Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) fasted and broke the fast, so he who wished fasted and he who wished to break it broke it.

Hadith Number 2471

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported: Do not condemn one who observes fast, or one who does not observe (in a journey) for the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed fast in a journey or he did not observe it (too).

Hadith Number 2472

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) went out to Mecca in Ramadan in the year of Victory, and he and the people fasted till he came to Kura’ al-Ghamim and the people also fasted. He then called for a cup of water which he raised till the people saw it, and then he drank. He was told afterwards that some people had continued to fast, and he said: These people are the disobedient ones; these are the disobedient ones.

Hadith Number 2473

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

This Hadith has been narrated by Ja’far with the same chain of transmitters and he added: It was said to him (to the Holy Prophet): There are people to whom fasting has become unbearable and they are waiting how you do. He (the Holy Prophet) then called for a cup of water when it was afternoon. The rest of the Hadith is the same.

Hadith Number 2474

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that in the course of a journey Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) saw a man, people crowding around him and providing him a shade. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: What is the matter with him? They said: He is a person observing fast. Whereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: It is no righteousness that you fast on journey.

Hadith Number 2475

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

‘Amr b. al-Hasan is reported to have said that he heard Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with both of them) as saying that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) saw a man. The rest of the Hadith is the same as mentioned above.

Hadith Number 2476

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu’ba with the same chain of transmitters but with this addition that he (the Holy Prophet) said: “Take advantage of the concession of Allah Who Wanted it to you.” When he (one of the narrators) asked him (the other one, Yahya b. Abi Kathar) he did not retain it in his mind.

Hadith Number 2477

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We went out on an expedition with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the 16th of Ramadan. Some of us fasted and some of us broke the fast. But neither the observer of the fast found fault with one who broke it, nor the breaker of the fast found fault with one who observed it.

Hadith Number 2478

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Qatada with the same chain of transmitters by different narrators (except this difference) that in the Hadith transmitted by Taimi and Umar b. Amir and Hisham (the date of setting out is) 18th, and in the Hadith transmitted by Sa’id it is the 12th, and in the one transmitted by Shu’ba it is the 17th or 19th.

Hadith Number 2479

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We went out on an expedition with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) during Ramadan and neither the observer of the fast was found fault with for his fasting, nor the breaker of the fast for breaking it.

Hadith Number 2480

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We went out on an expedition with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) during Ramadan. Some of us observed the fast and some of us broke it. Neither the observer of the fast had any grudge against one who broke it, nor the breaker of the fast had any grudge against one who had fasted They knew that he who had strength enough (to bear its rigour) fasted and that was good, and they also found that he who felt weakness (and could not bear the burden) broke it, and that was also good.

Hadith Number 2481

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Abu Nadra reported Abu Sa’id al-Khudri and Jabir b. Abdullah as saying: We traveled with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). The observer of the fast observed it, and the breaker of the fast broke it, but none of them found fault with each other.

Hadith Number 2482

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Humaid reported that Anas (Allah be pleased with him) was asked about fasting during Ramadan while traveling. He said: We traveled with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) during the month of Ramadan, but neither the observer of the fast found fault with the breaker of the fast, nor the breaker of the fast found fault with the observer of the fast.

Hadith Number 2483

Chapter: Permissibility of observing the fast or not observing it in the month of Ramadan for a traveler.

Abu Khalid al-Ahmar narrated from Humaid who said: I went out and was fasting; they said to me: Break (lit go back, repeat). He said that Anas reported that the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to set out on a journey and neither the observer of the fast found fault with the breaker of the fast, nor the breaker of the fast found fault with the observer of the fast. (One of the narrators Humaid said): I met Ibn Abi Mulaika who informed me the same thing on the authority of ‘Aisha.

Hadith Number 2484

Chapter: The reward of one who does not observe fast because of a religious duty.

Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We were with the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) on a journey. Some of us had been observing the fast and some of us had not been fasting. We got down at a place on a hot day. Most of us had the cloth for shelter. There were also those amongst us who sheltered (themselves against the rays of the) sun with the help of their hands. The observers of the fast fell down (on account of weakness). Those who had not observed it got up and pitched tents and watered the mounts. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The breakers of the fast have taken away the reward today.

Hadith Number 2485

Chapter: The reward of one who does not observe fast because of a religious duty.

Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was journeying (along with his Companions). Some of them had observed the fast whereas the others had broken it. Those who did not fast girded up their loins and worked, but the observers of the fast were too weak to work. Upon this he (the Apostle of Allah) said: Today the breakers of the fast have gone with the reward.

Hadith Number 2486

Chapter: The reward of one who does not observe fast because of a religious duty.

Qaza’a reported: I came to Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) and he was surrounded (by people), and when they dispersed I said to him: I am not going to ask you about what these people were asking. I ask you about fasting on a journey. Upon this he said: We traveled with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) towards Mecca and we had been observing fast. We halted at a place. There the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: You are nearing your enemy and breaking of fast would give you greater strength, and that was a concession (given to us). But some of us continued to observe the fast and some of us broke it. We then got down at another place and he (the Holy Prophet) said: You are going to encounter the enemy in the morning and breaking of the fast would give you strength, so break the fast. As it was a point of stress, so we broke the fast. But subsequently we saw ourselves observing the fast with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) on a journey.

Hadith Number 2487

Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Hamza b. ‘Amr al-Aslami asked the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) about fasting on a journey, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: Fast if you like and break it if you like.

Hadith Number 2488

Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Hamza b. Amr al-Aslami asked the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) thus: Messenger of Allah, I am a person devoted much to fasting. Should I fast during the journey? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Fast if you like and break it if you like.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2489. Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2490. Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters that Hamza said: I am a person much used to fasting. Should I fast during the journey? (The rest of the Hadith is the same.)

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2491. Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

Hamza b. ‘Amr al-Aslami (Allah be pleased with him) said: Messenger of Allah, I find strength in me for fasting on a journey; is there any sin upon me (in doing it)? Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: It is a concession from Allah. He who took advantage of it, it is good for him, and he who preferred to observe fast, there is no sin upon him. Harun (one of the narrators) in his narration said: “It is a concession, and he made no mention of ‘from Allah’”.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2492. Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

Abu Darda’ (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We set out during the month of Ramadan with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in such an intense heat that one of us would place his hand over his head (in order to protect himself) against the excessive heat, and none among us was observing the fast, except the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and ‘Abdullah b. Rawaha.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2493. Chapter: Choice for observing fast and breaking it on a journey.

Abu Darda’ reported: We were with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) on some of his journeys on an intensely hot day so much so that a person would place his hand on his head (in order to protect himself) against excessive heat, and none amongst us was fasting but the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and Abdullah b. Rawaha

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2494. Chapter: It is preferable for the pilgrim not to observe fast in ‘Arafat on the day of ‘Arafa.

Umm al-Fadl bint-al-Harith reported that some people argued about the fasting of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) on the day of ‘Arafa. Some of them said that he had been fasting, whereas the others said that he had not been fasting. I sent a cup of milk to him while he was riding his camel at ‘Arafa, and he drank it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2495. Chapter: It is preferable for the pilgrim not to observe fast in ‘Arafat on the day of ‘Arafa.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Nadr with the same chain of transmitters, but he did not mention that he was mounting (riding on) his camel.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2496. Chapter: It is preferable for the pilgrim not to observe fast in ‘Arafat on the day of ‘Arafa.

This Hadith has been narrated by Abu Nadr on the authority of Umair, the freed slave of Umm al-Fadl, through the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2497. Chapter: It is preferable for the pilgrim not to observe fast in ‘Arafat on the day of ‘Arafa.

Umm al-Fadl (Allah be pleased with her) is reported to have said that some people among the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) were in doubt about fasting on the day of ‘Arafa and we were with him on that day. I (Umm al-Fadl) sent him a cup of milk and he was halting at ‘Arafa, and he drank that.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2498. Chapter: It is preferable for the pilgrim not to observe fast in ‘Arafat on the day of ‘Arafa.

Kuraib, the freed slave of Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with him), reported from Maimuna, the wife of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), that people had doubt about the fasting of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the day of ‘Arafa. Maimuna sent him a cup of milk and he was halting at a place and he drank it and the people were seeing him.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2499. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Quraish used to fast on the day of ‘Ashura in the pre-Islamic days and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) also observed it. When he migrated to Medina, he himself observed this fast and commanded (others) to observe it. But when fasting during the month of Ramadan was made obligatory he said: He who wishes to observe this fast may do so, and he who wishes to abandon it may do so.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2500. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

This Hadith is narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters, but he made no mention in the first part of the Hadith that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe fast, and said about the second part that he abandoned the (fast) of Ashura, and he who wished observed the fast and who wished otherwise abandoned it, and he did not hold it as the words of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) as mentioned in the narration transmitted by Jarir.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2501. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported. In the Pre-Islamic days fast was observed on the day of Ashura, but with the advent of Islam its position was ascertained as that of a voluntary fast. Then he who wished to fast fasted, and he who liked to abandon it abandoned it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2502. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had ordered to observe fast (on ‘Ashura) before the fasting in Ramadan was made obligatory. But when it became obligatory, then he who wished fasted on the day of Ashura, and he who wished did not observe it (on that day).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2503. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Quraish used to observe fast on the day of Ashura during the pre-Islamic days. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) then commanded to fast on that day till (fasting) in Ramadan became obligatory. Then the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: He who wished to fast should do so and he who wished to break it may do so.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2504. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Abdullah b. ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that (the Arabs of) pre-Islamic days used to observe fast on the day of Ashura and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed it and the Muslims too (observed it) before fasting in Ramadan became obligatory. But when it became obligatory, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘Ashura is one of the days of Allah, so he who wished should observe fast and he who wished otherwise should abandon it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2505. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah through the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2506. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) said that the day of ‘Ashura was mentioned before the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: That was a day on which the people of pre-Islamic days used to observe fast. So he who amongst you likes to observe fast should do so, and he who does not like it should abandon it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2507. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Abdullah b. ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say about the day of Ashura: It is a day on which the people of pre-Islamic days observed fast. So he who liked to fast on this day should do so, and he who liked to abandon it should abandon it. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with him) did not observe fast except when it coincided (with the days when he was in the habit of observing voluntary fasts during every month).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2508. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the day of ‘Ashura was mentioned before the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and he narrated a Hadith like one (narrated above).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2509. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the day of ‘Ashura was mentioned before the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and he said: It is a day when the people in the pre-Islamic days need to observe fast, so he who wishes to observe fast should do so, and he who wishes to abandon it should do so.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2510. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Abd al-Rahman b. Yazid said: When al-Ash’ath b. Qais entered the house of ‘Abdullah he was having his breakfast. He (‘Abdullah b. Umar) said: Abd Muhammad (al-Asha’th), come near to the breakfast. Thereupon he said: Is not today the day of ‘Ashura? He (‘Abd al-Rahman) said: Do you know what the day of ‘Ashura is? He said: What is it? He said: It is a day on which the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe fast before the (fasting) in the month of Ramadan (became) obligatory. But when it became obligatory the (fasting of ‘Ashura) was abandoned (as compulsory). Abu Kuraib said: He (the Holy Prophet) abandoned it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2511. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

This Hadith has been narrated from Jarir on the authority of A’mash with the same chain of transmitters and he said (these words with a little bit of variation from the previous Hadith): When (fasting) in Ramadan was (made) obligatory, he abandoned it (the practice of observing fast on Ashura).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2512. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Qais b Sakan reported that al-Ash’ath b. Qais went to ‘Abdullah on the day of ‘Ashura while he was eating. He said: Abu Muhammad, come near and dine. Upon this he said: I am fasting. Thereupon he said: We used to observe fast and then (this practice) was abandoned.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2513. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

‘Alqama reported that Ash’ath b. Qais went to Ibn Mas’udd while he was eating on the day of Ashura. Thereupon he said: Abu Abd al-Rahman, it is the day of ‘Ashura (and you are eating). Upon this he said: Fast was observed on (this day) before the (fasting) in Ramadan was made obligatory, but when it was made obligatory, (fasting on the day of ‘Ashura) was abandoned. So if you are not fasting, then take food.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2514. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Jabir b Samura reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded us to observe fast on the day of Ashura and exhorted us to do it and was particular about it But when (fasting) in Ramadan was made obligatory, he henceforth neither commanded us nor forbade us, nor was he so particular about it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2515. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Abd al-Rahman reported that he heard Mu’awiya b. Abu Sufyan delivering a sermon in Medina. i.e. when he came there (for Hajj). He delivered a sermon on the day of ‘Ashura and said: People of Medina, where are your scholars? I heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say on this very day: It is the day of ‘Ashura. Allah has not made fasting on This day obligatory for you but I am fasting. He who likes to observe fast among you should do so, and he who likes not to observe it may not observe it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2516. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Shihab through the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2517. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters that he heard Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying on a similar day: I am fasting today, so he who wishes to observe fast should do so; but he did not make mention of the rest of the Hadith.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2518. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) came to Medina, he found the Jews observing the fast on the day of Ashura. They (the Jews) were asked about it and they said: It is the day on which Allah granted victory to Moses and (his people) Bani Isra’il over the Pharaoh and we observe fast out of gratitude to Him. Upon this the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: We have a closer connection with Moses than you have, and he commanded to observe fast on this day.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2519. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

This Hadith has been narrated by Ibn Bishr with the same chain of transmitters (but with a slight variation) that he (the Holy Prophet) inquired of them (Jews) about it (fasting on the day of ‘Ashura).

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FASTING Sahih Muslim Book 6,

Hadith Number 2520. Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram).

Ibn’Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) arrived in Medina and found the Jews observing fast on the day of ‘Ashura. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to them: What is the (significance) of this day that you observe fast on it? They said: It is the day of great (significance) when Allah delivered Moses and his people, and drowned the Pharaoh and his people, and Moses observed fast out of gratitude and we also observe it. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: We have more right, and we have a closer connection with Moses than you have; so Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) observed fast (on the day of ‘Ashura), and gave orders that it should be observed.

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Hadith Number 2521: Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram). This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ayyub with the same chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2522: Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram). Abu Musa (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The day of ‘Ashura was one which the Jews respected and they treated it as Id. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: You also observe fast on this day.

Hadith Number 2523: Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram). Abu Musa reported that the people of Khaibar (most of them were Jews) observed fast on the day of ‘Ashura and they treated it as ‘Id and gave their women ornaments and beautiful dress to wear. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: You (only) observe fast on this day.

Hadith Number 2524: Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram). Ibn Abbas was asked about observing of fast on the day of Ashura, whereupon he said: I do not know Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) singling out any day’s fast and considering it more excellent than another, except this day (the day of Ashura) and this month, meaning the month of Ramadan.

Hadith Number 2525: Chapter: Fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram). A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of ‘Ubaidullah b. Abi Yazid.

Hadith Number 2526: Chapter: On which day the fast is to be observed in Muharram. Hakam b. al-‘Araj reported: I went to Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be Pleased with both of them) and he was reclining using his mantle as a pillow near the fountain of Zamzam. I said to him: Tell me about fasting on Ashura. He said: When you see the new moon of Muharram then count the (days) and observe fast on the 9th. I said to him: Is it how the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed the fast? He said: Yes.

Hadith Number 2527: Chapter: On which day the fast is to be observed in Muharram. Hakam b. ‘Araj reported: I asked Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) as he was reclining using his cloak as a pillow near Zamzam about fasting on ‘Ashura. The rest of the Hadith is the same.

Hadith Number 2528: Chapter: On which day the fast is to be observed in Muharram. Ibn ‘Abbas reported that when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) fasted on the day of ‘Ashura and commanded that it should he observed as a fast, they (his Companions) said to him: Messenger of Allah, it is a day which the Jews and Christians hold in high esteem. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: When the next year comes, God willing, we would observe fast on the 9th But the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) died before the advent of the next year.

Hadith Number 2529: Chapter: On which day the fast is to be observed in Muharram. Abdullah b ‘Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: If I live till the next (year), I would definitely observe fast on the 9th, and the narration transmitted by Abu Bakr is: “He meant the day of Ashura.”

Hadith Number 2530: Chapter: He who ate on the day of Ashura should abstain (from eating) for the rest of the day (as a mark of respect). Salama b. al-Akwa’ (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a person of the tribe of Aslam on the day of ‘Ashura and commanded him to declare to the people to observe fast in case they had not observed it, and to complete fast till evening if they had taken food.

Hadith Number 2531: Chapter: He who ate on the day of Ashura should abstain (from eating) for the rest of the day (as a mark of respect). Rubayyi’ daughter of Mu’awwidh b. ‘Afra’ said that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent (a person) on the morning of Ashura to the villages of Ansar around Medina (with this message): He who got up in the morning fasting (without eating anything) he should complete his fast, and he who had had his breakfast in the morning, he should complete the rest of the day (without food).

Hadith Number 2532: Chapter: He who ate on the day of Ashura should abstain (from eating) for the rest of the day (as a mark of respect). Khalid b. Dhakwan reported: I asked Rubayyi’ daughter of Mu’awwidh about fasting on the day of ‘Ashura. Thereupon she said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him) sent his messenger to the villages of the Ansar, and the rest of the Hadith is the same.

Hadith Number 2533: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Abu Ubaid, the freed slave of Ibn Azhar, reported: I observed Id along with Umar b. al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him). He came (out in an open space) and prayed and (after) completing it addressed the people and said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) has forbidden the observing of fast on these two days. One is the day of Fitr (at the end of your fasts), and the second one, the day when you eat (the meat) of your sacrifices.

Hadith Number 2534: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade to observe fast on these two days. ‘Id-ul-Adha and ‘Id-ul-Fitr.

Hadith Number 2535: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Qaza’a related from Abu Sa’id. He said: I heard from him (Abu Sa’id) a Hadith which impressed me, and I said to him: Did you hear it from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him)? Thereupon he said: (Is it possible) that (I should) say about the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) that which I have not heard? I heard him saying: It is not proper to fast on two days, Adha and Fitr (at the end) of Ramadan.

Hadith Number 2536: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade to observe fast on two days the day of Fitr and the day of Sacrifice (‘Id-ul-Adha).

Hadith Number 2537: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Ziyad b. Jubair reported that a person came to Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) and said: I had taken a vow that I would fast on the day (but it accidentally) synchronises with the day of Adha or the day of Fitr. Thereupon Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah, the Exalted, has commanded fulfilling of the vow, but the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) has forbidden the observance of fast on this day.

Hadith Number 2538: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) said that the Prophet (may peace be upon him) forbade to observe fast on two days-the day of Fitr and the day of Adha.

Hadith Number 2539: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Nubaisha al-Hudhali reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The days of Tashriq are the days of eating and drinking.

Hadith Number 2540: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Nabaisha reported that Khalid said: I met Abu Malih and asked him and he narrated it to me from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), a Hadith like one (narrated above) with this addition: “And remembrance of Allah”.

Hadith Number 2541: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. Ibn Ka’b b. Malik reported on the authority of his father that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent him and Aus b. Hadathan during the days of Tashriq to make this announcement: None but the believer would be admitted into Paradise, and the days of Mina’ are the days meant for eating and drinking.

Hadith Number 2542: Chapter: Forbiddance to observe fast on ‘Id-ul-Fitr and ‘Id-al-Adha. This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibrahim b. Tahman with the same chain of transmitters but with this variation that he said: Both of them made the announcement.

Hadith Number 2543: Chapter: Disapproval of fasting on Friday alone. Muhammad b. ‘Abbas b. Ja’far reported: I asked Jabir b. ‘Abdullah (Allah be pleased with both of them) as he was circumambulating the House (Ka’ba) whether the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had forbidden the fasting on Friday, whereupon he said: Yes, by the Lord of this House.

Hadith Number 2544: Chapter: Disapproval of fasting on Friday alone. Muhammad b. ‘Abbas b. Ja’far reported that he asked Jabir b. Abdullah (Allah be pleased with them), whether he had heard like this from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him).

Hadith Number 2545: Chapter: Disapproval of fasting on Friday alone. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) as saying: None among you should observe fast on Friday, but only that he observes fast before it and after it.

Hadith Number 2546: Chapter: Disapproval of fasting on Friday alone. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Do not single out the night (preceding) Friday among the nights for prayer and do not single out Friday among days for fasting but only when anyone among you is accustomed to fast (on dates) which coincide with this day (Friday).

Hadith Number 2547: Chapter: Abrogation of the words of Allah: “And as for those who can fast (but do not) the expiation is” by the words: “Whosoever witnesses it he shall have to fast the whole month” (ii. 184). Salama b. Akwa’ (Allah be pleased with him) reported that when this verse was revealed: “And as for those who can fast (but do not) expiation is the feeding of a needy person” (ii. 183), (he who liked to observe fast did observe it) and he who felt reluctant to observe it ate and expiated till the verse was revealed which abrogated it.

Hadith Number 2548: Chapter: Abrogation of the words of Allah: “And as for those who can fast (but do not) the expiation is” by the words: “Whosoever witnesses it he shall have to fast the whole month” (ii. 184). Salama b. Akwa’ reported: We, during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), in one month of Ramadan (observed fast according to our liking). He who wished to fast lasted and he who wished to break broke it and fed a needy person as an expiation till this verse was revealed: “He who witnesses among you the month (of Ramadan) he should observe fast during it” (ii. 184).

Hadith Number 2549: Chapter: Permissibility of completing the fasts of Ramadan before the commencement of the coming Ramadan. Abu Salama reported: I heard ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) as saying: I had to complete some of the fasts of Ramadan, but I could not do it but during the month of Sha’ban due to my duties to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) or with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him).

Hadith Number 2550: Chapter: Permissibility of completing the fasts of Ramadan before the commencement of the coming Ramadan. This Hadith is narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Sa’id with the same chain of transmitters but with this variation that he said that (‘Aisha did not observe fast but in Sha’ban) out of regard for the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). (In another version, the words are): “Yahya said: I think it was due to the regard for the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him).”

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Hadith Number 2551 Chapter: Permissibility of completing the fasts of Ramadan before the commencement of the coming Ramadan.

This Hadith is reported on the authority of Yahya with the same chain of transmitters but no mention is made of the duty to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him).

Hadith Number 2552 Chapter: Permissibility of completing the fasts of Ramadan before the commencement of the coming Ramadan.

‘Aisha reported: If one amongst us had to break fasts (of Ramadan due to natural reasons, i.e., menses) during the life of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) she could not find it possible to complete them so long she had been in the presence of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) till Sha’ban commenced.

Hadith Number 2553 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If anyone dies in a state (that he had to complete) some fasts, his heir must fast on his behalf.

Hadith Number 2554 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported: A woman came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: My mother has died, and fasts of a month are due from her. Thereupon he said: Don’t you see that if debt was due from her, would you not pay it? She said: Yes (I would pay on her behalf). Thereupon he said: The debt of Allah deserves its payment more than (the payment of anyone else).

Hadith Number 2555 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported: A man came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah, my mother has died (in a state) that she had to observe fasts of a month (of Ramadan). Should I complete (them) on her behalf? thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Would you not pay the debt if your mother had died (without paying it)? He said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The debt of Allah deserves more that it should he paid.

Hadith Number 2556 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him).

Hadith Number 2557 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported: A woman came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah, my mother has died and there is due from her a fast of vow; should I fast on her behalf? Thereupon he said: You see that if your mother had died in debt, would it not have been paid on her behalf? She said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Then observe fast on behalf of your mother.

Hadith Number 2558 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Abdullah b. Buraida (Allah be pleased with him) reported on the authority of his father: When we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), a woman came to him and said: I had gifted to my mother a maid-servant, and now she (the mother) has died. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There is a definite reward for you and she (the maid-servant) has been returned to you as an inheritance. She (that woman) again said: Fasts of a month (of Ramadan) are due upon her; should I observe them on her behalf? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe fasts on her behalf. She (again) said: She did not perform Hajj, should I perform it on her behalf? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Perform Hajj on her behalf.

Hadith Number 2559 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

‘Abdullah b. Buraida (Allah be pleased with him) reported on the authority of his father: I was sitting with the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him); the rest of the Hadith is the same but with this variation that the (the narrator) said: “Fasts of two months.”

Hadith Number 2560 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Ibn Buraida (Allah be pleased with him) reported on the authority of his father: A woman came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), and the rest of the Hadith is the same, but he said: “Fasting of one month.” This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sufyan with the same chain of transmitters in which it is said: “Fasting of two months.”

Hadith Number 2561 Chapter: Completing of the fast on behalf of the dead.

Buraida (Allah be pleased with him) reported a similar Hadith on the authority of his father that a woman came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and he said: “Fasting for one month.”

Hadith Number 2562 Chapter: When an observer of fast is invited to a feast or someone fights with him, he should say: “I am fasting”.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: When one of you is fasting, he should say: I am not desirous of food and drink. The strong desire is that of Allah which has freed me from it (food and drink), or he said: has kept me from it.

Hadith Number 2563 Chapter: When an observer of fast is invited to a feast or someone fights with him, he should say: “I am fasting”.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: When one of you is fasting, he should say: I am fasting.

Hadith Number 2564 Chapter: The one who fights or abuses (the observer of the fast) is more deserving of sinful act.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Fasting is a shield; so when one of you is fasting he should not use foul or foolish talk. If someone attacks him or insults him, let him say: “I am fasting, I am fasting.”

Hadith Number 2565 Chapter: The one who fights or abuses (the observer of the fast) is more deserving of sinful act.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Fasting is a shield. When any one of you is observing fast, he should neither indulge in obscene language nor should he raise the voice; and if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him he should say: I am observing fast.

Hadith Number 2566

Chapter: The one who fights or abuses (the observer of the fast) is more deserving of sinful act.

This Hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) with a slight variation of wording.

Hadith Number 2567

Chapter: Reproof of the one who swears much, abuses much and talks foolishly while observing fast.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Fasting is a shield; so when any one of you is fasting he should neither indulge in obscene language nor should he raise the voice in anger. If someone attacks him or insults him, let him say: I am fasting, I am fasting.

Hadith Number 2568 Chapter: Reproof of the one who swears much, abuses much and talks foolishly while observing fast.

This Hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) with a slight variation of wording.

Hadith Number 2569

Chapter: The one who swears much, abuses much and talks foolishly, he should not do so while observing fast.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: When any one of you gets up in the morning in the state of fasting, he should neither use obscene language nor do any act of ignorance. And if anyone slanders him or quarrels with him, he should say: I am fasting, I am fasting.

Hadith Number 2570

Chapter: The one who swears much, abuses much and talks foolishly, he should not do so while observing fast.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Fasting is not (abstaining) from eating and drinking only, but also from vain speech and foul language. If one of you is being cursed or annoyed, he should say: I am fasting, I am fasting.

Hadith Number 2571

Chapter: Reproof of the one who swears much, abuses much and talks foolishly while observing fast.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Five are the acts akin to the Fitra (nature): circumcision, removing the hair below the navel, clipping the moustache, cutting the nails, and removing the hair under the armpits.

Hadith Number 2572

Chapter: The one who breaks the fast of a person in Ramadan without a genuine excuse, he should not only fast for thirty days but also feed sixty needy people.

‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As (Allah be pleased with them) reported that a person came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah, what sort of deprivation is this? (that is, while fasting) The rest of the Hadith is the same. But in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Bashshar, there is an addition of these words: I cannot bear it. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There is nothing (more) but Paradise.

Hadith Number 2573

Chapter: The one who breaks the fast of a person in Ramadan without a genuine excuse, he should not only fast for thirty days but also feed sixty needy people.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Abi Shaiba with the same chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2574

Chapter: The one who breaks the fast of a person in Ramadan without a genuine excuse, he should not only fast for thirty days but also feed sixty needy people.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of A’mash with the same chain of transmitters.

Hadith Number 2575

Chapter: The one who breaks the fast of a person in Ramadan without a genuine excuse, he should not only fast for thirty days but also feed sixty needy people.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Shu’ba with the same chain of transmitters.

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Hadith Number 2576

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported: I said to ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her): Did the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) observe fast for full one month besides Ramadan? She said: I do not know of any month in which he fasted throughout, but that of the month of Ramadan and (the month) in which he did not fast at all, till he ran the course of his life.

Hadith Number 2577

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

‘Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported: I said to ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her): Did the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observe fast during a month? She said, I do not know of any month in which he fasted throughout except Ramadan and (the month) in which he did not fast at all till he ran the course of his life. May peace be upon him.

Hadith Number 2578

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

Abdullah b. Shaqiq reported. I asked ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) about fasting of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). She said: He used to observe fast (at times) so continuously that we said: He has fasted, he has fasted. And (at times) he did not observe fast (for days) and we began to say: He has abandoned fasting, he has abandoned fasting. She said: I did not see him observing fast throughout the whole of the month since he arrived in Medina, but that of Ramadan.

Hadith Number 2579

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

A Hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. Shaqiq but in the chain of transmitters no mention is made of Hisham and Muhammad.

Hadith Number 2580

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

‘Aisha, the Mother of the Believers (Allah be pleased with her), reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe fasts (so continuously) that we said that he would not break, and did not observe (them) till we said that he would not fast: and I did not see the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) completing the fast of a month, but that of Ramadan, and I did not see him fasting more in any other month than that of Sha’ban.

Hadith Number 2581

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

Abu Salama reported: I asked ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) about the fasting of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him). She said: He used to observe fast (at times so continuously) that we said: He has fasted (never to break), and he did not observe fast till we said: He has given up perhaps never to fast, and I never saw him observing (voluntary fasts) more in any other month than that of Sha’ban. (It appeared as if) he observed fast throughout the whole of Sha’ban except a few (days).

Hadith Number 2582

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) did not observe fast in any month of the year more than in the month of Sha’ban, and used to say: Do as many deeds as you are capable of doing, for Allah will not become weary (of giving you reward), but you would be tired (of doing good deeds); and he also said: The deed liked most by Allah is one to which the doer adheres constantly even if it is small.

Hadith Number 2583

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) did not fast throughout any month except during Ramadan. And when he observed fast (he fasted so continuously) that one would say that he would not break (them) and when he Abandoned, he abandoned (so continuously) that one would say: By Allah, perhaps he would never fast.

Hadith Number 2584

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Bishr with the same chain of transmitters (with a slight variation of words and these are), that he (the narrator) said: “During any month continuously since he came to Medina.”

Hadith Number 2585

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

‘Uthman b. Hakim al-Ansari said: I asked Sa’id b. Jubair about fasting In Rajab, and we were then passing through the month of Rajab, whereupon he said: I heard Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) as saying: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe fast (so continuously) that we (were inclined) to say that he would not break (them) and did not observe them so continuously) that we (were inclined to say) that he would not observe fast.

Hadith Number 2586

Chapter: The fasts observed by the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) besides Ramadan.

Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe fast till it was said that he had observed fast, he had observed fast (perhaps never to break it), and he did not fast till it was said that he had given up fast, he had given up fast (perhaps never to observe it).

Hadith Number 2587

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days.

‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was informed that he could stand up for (prayer) throughout the night and observe fast every day so long as he lived. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Is it you who said this? I said to him: Messenger of Allah, it is I who said that. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah may peace be upon him) said: You are not stronger than Abraham, who was a Prophet and who observed fasts on alternate days, and he used to observe fast on the tenth of Muharram; and you neither exceed me in excellence nor in nearness to Allah (as compared to Abraham).

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2588.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. Yahya reported: I and ‘Abdullah b. Yazid set out till we came to Abu Salama. We sent a messenger to him (in his house in order to inform him about our arrival) and he came to us. There was a mosque near the door of his house, and we were in that mosque, till he came out to us. He said: If you like you may enter (the house) and, if you like, you may sit here (in the mosque). We said: We would rather sit here and (you) relate to us. He (Yahya) then narrated that ‘Abdullah b Amr b. al-‘As (Allah be pleased with them) told him: I used to observe fast uninterruptedly and recited the (whole of the) Qur’an every night. It (the uninterrupted fasting and recital of the Qur’an every night) was mentioned to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) or he sent for me, and I went to him and he said to me: I have been informed that you fast continuously and recite (the whole of the Qur’an) every night. I said: Apostle of Allah, it is right, but I covet thereby nothing but good, whereupon he said: It suffices for you that you should observe fast for three days during every mouth. I said: Apostle of Allah, I am capable of doing more than this. He said: Your wife has a right upon you, your visitor has a right upon you, your body has a right upon you; so observe the fast of David, the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), for he was the best worshipper of Allah. I said: Apostle of Allah, what is the fast of David? He said: He used to fast one day and did not fast the other day. He (also) said: Recite the Qur’an during every month. I said: Apostle of Allah, I am capable of doing more than this, whereupon he said: Recite it in twenty days; recite it in ten days. I said: I am capable of doing more than this, whereupon he said: Recite it every week, and do not exceed beyond this, for your wife has a right upon you, your visitor has a right upon you, your body has a right upon you. He (‘Amr b. ‘As) said: I was hard to myself and thus I was put to hardship. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had told me: ‘You do not know you may live long (thus and bear the hardships for a long time), and I accepted that which the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) had told me. When I grew old I wished I had availed myself of the concession (granted by) the Apostle of Allah (may-peace be upon him). This Hadith has been narrated by Yahya b. Abu Kathir with the same chain of transmitters and he made this addition after these words: During every month, (fasting) for three days, there is for you ten times for every good and that is perpetual fasting (for three days would bring a reward for full thirty days). I said: What is the fast of the Apostle of Allah, David? He said: Half of the age (observing fast on alternate days for the whole life). And in the Hadith no mention has been made of the recital of the Qur’an, and he did not say: Your visitor has a right upon you, but (instead) he said: Your son has a right upon you.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2589.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr (Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to me: Recite the whole of the Qur’an during every month. I said: I find power (to recite it) in a shorter period. He said: Then recite it in twenty nights. I said: I find power (to recite it in a shorter period even than this), whereupon he said: Then recite it in seven (nights) and do not exceed beyond it.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2590.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘Abdullah, don’t be like so and so who observed prayer during the whole night and then abandoned it (altogether).

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2591.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. Abdu’llah b. ‘Amr b. ‘As (Allah be pleased with them) reported: It was conveyed to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) that I observe fast successively and pray during the whole night. He sent for me or I met him and he (the Holy Prophet) said: It has been conveyed to me that you observe fast continuously and do not break it and pray during the whole night. Don’t do that. for there is share for your eyes, share for your own self, share for your family; so observe fast and break it, pray and sleep and observe fast for one day during the ten days, and there is a reward for you (for other) nine (days besides the tenth day of the fast). I said: Apostle of Allah, I find myself more powerful than this. He said: Then observe the fast of David (peace be upon him). He (‘Amr) said: Apostle of Allah, how did David observe fast? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com He used to fast one day and break it on the other day, and he did not run (from the battlefield) as he encountered (the enemy). He said: Apostle of Allah, who can guarantee this for me (will I also encounter the enemy dauntlessly)? ‘Ata’, the narrator of the Hadith, said: I do not know how there (crept in) the matter of perpetual fast. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), however, said: He who observed perpetual fast did not fast at all; he who observed perpetual fast did not fast at all, he who observed perpetual fast did not fast at all. This Hadith has been narrated by Ibn Juraij with the same chain of transmitters. Imam Muslim has narrated this Hadith on the authority of Abu ‘Abbas al-Sa’ib b. Farrukh and he was a trustworthy and reliable (narrator) among the people of Mecca.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2592.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. Abdullah b. Amr (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to me: ‘Abdullah b. Amr, you fast continuously and stand in prayer for the whole of night. If you do like that, your eyes would be highly strained and would sink and lose sight. There is no (reward for) fasting (for him) who fasts perpetually. Fasting for three days during the month is like fasting, the whole of the month. I said: I am capable of doing more than this, whereupon he said: Observe the fast of David. He used to fast one day and break (the other) day. And he did not turn back in the encounter.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2593.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. This Hadith is narrated on the authority of Habib b. Abu Thabit with the same chain of transmitters and he said: “And you would become exhausted.”

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2594.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to me: I have been informed that you stand for prayer the whole of night and fast during the day. I said: I do that, whereupon he said: If you did that you in fact strained heavily your eyes and made yourself weak. There is a right of Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com your eyes (upon you) and a right of yourself (upon you) and a right of your family (upon you). Stand for prayer and sleep, observe fasts and break (them).

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2595.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: With Allah the best fasting is that of David and the best prayer is that of David (peace be upon him) for he slept half of the night and stood for prayer for the third of it and (then) slept the sixth part of it and he observed fast one day and broke on the other.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2596.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The best fasting in the eye of Allah is that of David, for he fasted for half of the age (he fasted on alternate days), and the best prayer in the eye of Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, is that of David (peace be upon him), for he slept for half of the night and then stood for prayer and then again slept. He prayed for one-third of the night after midnight. He (the narrator) said: I asked ‘Amr b. Dinar whether ‘Amr b. Aus said that he stood for prayer one-third of the night after midnight. He said: Yes.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2597.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. Abu Qatada reported that Abu al Malih informed me: I went along with your father to ‘Abdullah b. Amr, and he narrated to us that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was informed about my fasting and he came to me, and I placed a leather cushion filled with fibre of date-palms for him. He sat down upon the ground and there was that cushion between me and him, and he said to me: Does three days’ fasting in a month not suffice you? I said: Messenger of Allah, (I am capable of observing more fasts). He said: (Would) five (not suffice for you)? I said: Messenger of Allah, (I am capable of observing more fasts) He said: (Would) seven (fasts) not suffice you? I said: Messenger of Allah, (I am capable of observing more fasts). He (the Holy Prophet) then said: (Would) nine (fasts not suffice you)? I said: Messenger of Allah, (I am capable of c observing more fasts). He said: (Would) eleven (fasts not suffice you)? I said: Messenger of Allah, (I am capable of observing more fasts than these). Thereupon the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: There is no fasting (better than) the fasting of David which comprises half of the age, fasting a day and not fasting a day.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2598.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. Amr (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said to him: Observe fast for a day and there would be reward for you for the rest (of the days). He said: I am capable of doing more than this. He then said: Observe fast for two days, and there would be reward for you for the rest (of the days). He said: I am capable of doing more than this. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Observe fast for three days and there would be reward for you for the rest of the days. He said: I am capable of doing more than this, whereupon he said: Observe fast for four days and there would be reward for you for the rest of the days. He said: I am capable of doing more than this. Thereupon he said: Then observe fast (which is the) best in the eye of Allah, the fast of David (peace be upon him); he used to observe fast one day and break on the other day.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2599.

Chapter: Forbiddance to observe perpetual fast and excellence of observing fast on alternate days. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to me ! ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr, it has been conveyed to me that you observe fast during the day and stand in prayer during the whole night. Don’t do that, for your body has a share of its own in you, your eye has a share of its own in you, your wife has a share of her own in you. Observe fast and break it too. Fast for three days in every month and that is a perpetual fasting. I said! Messenger of Allah, I have got strength enough (to do more than this), whereupon he said: Then observe the fast of David (peace be upon him). Observe fast one day and break it (on the other) day. And he (‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr) used to say: Would that I had availed myself of this concession.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2600.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. Mu’adha al-‘Adawiyya reported that she asked ‘Aisha, the wife of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), whether the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed fasts for three days during every month. She said: Yes I said to her: Which were (the particular) days of the month on which he observed fast? She said: He was not particular about the days of the month on which to observe fast.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2601.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. ‘Imran b. Husain (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to him (or he said to another person and he was listening to it): O, so and so, did you observe fast in the middle of the month? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Messenger of Allah) said: When you break it, then observe fast for two days.

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Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2602.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. Abu Qatada reported that a person came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: How do you observe fast? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) felt annoyed.1560 When ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with him) noticed his annoyance, he said: We are well pleased with Allah as our Lord, with Islam as our Code of Life, and with Muhammad as our Prophet. We seek refuge with Allah from the anger of Allah and that of His Messenger. ‘Umar kept on repeating these words till his (the Prophet’s) anger calmed down. Then Umar said: Messenger of Allah, what is the position of one who perpetually observes fasts? Thereupon he said: He neither fasted nor broke it, or he said: He did not fast and he did not break it. He said: What about him who observes fast for two days and breaks one day. Thereupon he said: Is anyone capable of doing it? He (‘Umar) said: What is the position of him who observes fast for a day and breaks on the other day? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: That is the fast of David (peace be upon him). He (‘Umar) said: What about him who observes fast one day and breaks it for two days. Thereupon he (the Messenger of Allah) said: I wish, I were given strength to observe that. Thereafter he said: The observance of three days’ fast every Month and that of Ramadan every year is a perpetual fasting. I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of ‘Arafa may atone for the sins of the preceding and the coming years and I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of Ashura may atone for the sins of the preceding year.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2603.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. Abu Qatada al-Ansari (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was asked about his fasting. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) felt annoyed. Thereupon ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with him) said: We are pleased with Allah as the Lord, with Islam as our Code of Life, with Muhammad as the Messenger and with our pledge (to you for willing and cheerful submission) as a (sacred) commitment. He was then asked about perpetual fasting, whereupon he said: He neither fasted nor did he break it, or he did not fast and he did not break it. He was then asked about fasting for two days and breaking one day. He (the Holy Prophet) said: And who has strength enough to do it? He was asked about fasting for a day and breaking for two days, whereupon he said: May Allah bestow upon us strength to do it. He was then asked about fasting for a day and breaking on the other, whereupon he said: That is the fasting of my brother David (peace be upon him). He was then asked about fasting on Monday, whereupon he said: It was the day on which I was born. on which I was commissioned with prophet-hood or revelation was sent to me, (and he further) said: Three days’ fasting every month and of the whole of Ramadan every year is a perpetual fast. He was asked about fasting on the day of ‘Arafa (9th of Dhu’I-Hijja), whereupon he said: It expiates the sins of the preceding year and the coming year. He was asked about fasting on the day of ‘Ashura (10th of Muharram), whereupon be said: It expiates the sins of the preceding year. (Imam Muslim said that in this Hadith there is a) narration of Imam Shu’ba that he was asked about fasting on Monday and Thursday, but we (Imam Muslim) did not mention Thursday for we found it as an error (in reporting).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2604.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. This Hadith has been narrated by Shu’ba with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2605.

: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. This Hadith has been narrated by Ghailan b. Jarir with the same chain of transmitters, but with one variation, that there has been made mention of Monday and not of Thursday.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2606.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for three days during every month, and fasting on the day of ‘Arafa, and ‘Ashura and Monday and Thursday. Abu Qatada Ansari (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) was asked about fasting on Monday, whereupon he said: It is (the day) when I was born and revelation was sent down to me.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2607.

Chapter: Fasting in the month of Sha’ban. ‘Imran b. Husain (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace he upon him) having said to him or to someone else: Did you fast in the middle of Sha’ban? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: If you did not observe fast, then you should observe fast for two days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2608.

Chapter: Fasting in the month of Sha’ban. Imran b. Husain (Allah be pleased with them) reported that Allah’s Apostle (peace be upon him) said to a person: Did you observe any fast in the middle of this month (Sha’ban)? He said: No. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Fast for two days instead of (one fast) when you have completed (fasts of) Ramadan.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2609.

Chapter: Fasting in the month of Sha’ban. ‘Imran b. Husain (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said to a person: Did you observe fast in the middle of this month i.e. Sha’ban? He said: No. Thereupon he said to him: When it is the end of Ramadan, then observe fast for one day or two (Shu’ba had some doubt about it) but he said: I think that he has said: two days.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2610.

Chapter: Fasting in the month of Sha’ban. This Hadith is narrated by ‘Abdullah b. Hani b. Akhi Mutarrif with the same chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2611.

Chapter: Excellence of the fast of Muharram. Abu Haraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The most excellent fast after Ramadan is God’s month; alMuharram, and the most excellent prayer after what is prescribed is prayer during the night.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2612.

Chapter: Excellence of the fast of Muharram. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that he (the Messenger of Allah) was asked as to which prayer was most excellent after the prescribed prayer, and which fast was most excellent after the month of Ramadan. He said: Prayer offered in the middle of the night and the most excellent fast after (fasting) in the month of Ramadan is the fast in God’s month al-Muharram.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2613.

Chapter: Excellence of the fast of Muharram. A Hadith like this has been reported from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) by ‘Abd al-Malik with the same chain of transmitters in connection with fast.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2614.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for six days in the month of Shawwal after Ramadhan. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: He who observed the fast of Ramadan and then followed it with six (fasts) of Shawwal; it would be as if he fasted perpetually.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2615.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for six days in the month of Shawwal after Ramadhan. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari reported (through another chain of transmitters): I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) saying like this.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2616.

Chapter: Excellence of observing fast for six days in the month of Shawwal after Ramadhan. Abu Ayyub reported a Hadith like this (through another chain of transmitters).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2617.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that some persons among the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were shown Lailat-ulQadr while sleeping in the last week (of Ramadan). Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I see that your dreams agree regarding the last week; so he who wants to seek it should seek it in the last week (during the night).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2618.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Seek Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last week (of Ramadan).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2619.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com Salim reported on the authority of his father that a person saw Lailat-ul-Qadr on the 27th (of Ramadan).Thereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: I see that your dreams agree regarding the last ten (nights of Ramadan). So seek it on an odd number (of these ten nights).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2620.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Salim b. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar reported that his father said: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: So far as Lailat-ul-Qadr is concerned, some persons among you have seen it (in a dream) in the first week and some persons among you have been shown that it is in the last week; so seek it in the last ten (nights).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2621.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Seek it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) in the last (ten nights).If one among you shows slackness and weakness (in the earlier part of Ramadan), it should not be allowed to prevail upon him in the last week.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2622.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: He who is anxious to seek it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) should seek it in the last ten (nights of Ramadan).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2623.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. ‘Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Seek the time of Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last (ten nights), or he said: in the last nine (nights).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2624.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr; then some members of my family awoke me up, then I was caused to forget it. So seek it in the last week. Harmala said: (The Holy Prophet did not say: “I was made to forget,” but he stated): “But I forgot it.”

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2625.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) spent in devotion (in i’tikaf) the middle ten nights of the month of Ramadan, and when twenty nights were over and it was the twenty-first night, he went back to his residence and those who were along with him also returned (to their respective residences).He spent one month in devotion. Then he addressed the people on the night he came back (to his residence) and commanded them as Allah desired (him to command) and then said: I used to devote myself (observe i’tikaf) during these ten (nights).Then I started devoting myself in the last ten (nights).And he who desires to observe i’tikaf along with me should spend the night) at his place of i’tikaf. And I saw this night (Lailat-ul-Qadr) but I forgot it (the exact night); so seek it ;In the last ten nights on odd numbers. I saw (the glimpses of that dream) that I was prostrating in water and mud. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri said: It rained on the twenty-first night and the water dripped (from the roof) of the mosque at the place where the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed prayer. I looked at him and as he completed the dawn prayer, (I found) his face was wet with mud and water.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2626.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) devoted (himself to prayer) in the middle (ten nights) of Ramadan. The rest of the Hadith is the same except for these words: “That he adhered to his place of i’tikaf and his forehead was besmeared with mud and water.”

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2627.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed i’tikaf (confined himself for devotion and prayer) in the first ten (days) of Ramadan; he then observed i’tikaf in the middle ten (days) in a Turkish tent with a mat hanging at its door. He (the Holy Prophet) took hold of that mat and placed it in the nook of the tent. He then put his head out and talked with people and they came near him, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: I observed i’tikaf in the first ten (nights and days) in order to seek that night (Lailat-ul-Qadr). I then observed i’tikaf in the middle ten days. Then (an angel) was sent to me and I was told that this (night) is among the last ten (nights). He who among you likes to observe i’tikaf should do so; and the people observed it along with him, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: That (Lailat-ulQadr) was shown to me on an odd (night) and I (saw in the dream) that I was prostrating in the morning in clay and water. So in the morning of the twenty-first night when he (the Holy Prophet) got up for dawn (prayer), there was a rainfall and the mosque dripped, and I saw clay and water. When he came out after completing the morning prayer (I saw) that his forehead and the tip of his nose had (traces) of clay and water, and that was the twenty-first night among the last ten (nights).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2628.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Salama reported: ‘We discussed amongst ourselves Lailat-ul-Qadr. I came to Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) who was a friend of mine and said to him: Would you not go with us to the garden of date trees? He went out with a cloak over him. I said to him: Did you hear the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) making mention of Lailat-ul-Qadr? He said: Yes, (and added) we were observing i’tikaf with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in the middle ten days of Ramadan, and came out on the morning of the twentieth and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) addressed us and said: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr, but I forgot (the exact night) or I was caused to forget it, so seek it in the last ten odd (nights), and I was shown that I was prostrating in water and clay. So he who wanted to observe i’tikaf with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) should return (to the place of i’tikaf). He (Abu Sa’id al-Khudri) said: And we returned and did not find any patch of cloud in the sky. Then the cloud gathered and there was (so heavy) a downpour that the roof of the mosque which was made of the branches of date-palms began to drip. Then there was prayer and I saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) prostrating in water and clay till I saw the traces of clay on his forehead.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2629.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. This Hadith has been reported on the authority of Yahya b. Abu Kathir with the same chain of transmitters (with a slight variation of these words): I saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) after he had completed (the prayer) and there was a trace of clay on his forehead and tip (of the nose).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2630.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed i’tikaf in the middle ten days of Ramadan to seek Lailatul-Qadr before it was made manifest to him. When (these nights) were over, he commanded to strike the tent. Then it was made manifest to him that (Lailat-ul-Qadr) was in the last ten nights (of Ramadan), and commanded to pitch the tent (again). He then came to the people and said: O people, Lailat-ul-Qadr was made manifest to me and I came out to inform you about it that two persons came contending with each other and there was a devil along with them and I forgot it. So seek it in the last ten nights of Ramadan. Seek it on the ninth, on the seventh and on the fifth. I (one of the narrators) said: Abu Sa’id, you know more than us about numbers. He said: Yes, indeed we have better right than you. I said: What is this ninth, seventh, and fifth? He said: When twenty-one (nights are over) and the twenty-second begins, it is the ninth, and when twenty-three (nights) are over, that which follows (the last night) is the seventh, and when twenty-five nights are over, what follows it is fifth. Ibn Khallad said: Instead of the word Yahliqan (contending), he said Yakhtasiman, (they are disputing).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2631.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. ‘Abdullah b. Unais reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr; then I was made to forget it, and saw that I was prostrating in water and clay in the morning of that (night). He (the narrator) said: There was a downpour on the twenty-third night and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) led us in prayer, and as he went back, there was a trace of water and clay on his forehead and on his nose. He (the narrator) said: ‘Abdullah b. Unais used to say that it was the twenty-third (night).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2632.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) and Ibn Numair reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Look for (and in the words of Waki, seek) Lailat-ul-Qadr in the last ten nights of Ramadan.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2633.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Zirr b. Habaish reported: I thus asked Ubayy b. Ka’b (Allah be pleased with him): Your brother (in faith) Ibn Mas’ud says: He who stands (for the night prayer) throughout the year would find Lailat-ul-Qadr, whereupon he said: May Allah have mercy upon him; (he said these words) with the intention that people might not rely only (on one night), whereas he knew that it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) is in the month of Ramadan and it is the twentyseventh night. He then took oath (without making any exception, i.e. without saying Insha Allah) that it was the twenty-seventh night. I said to him: Abu Mundhir, on what ground do you say that? Thereupon he said: By the indication or by the sign which the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) gave us, and that is that on that day (the sun) would rise without having any ray in it.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2634.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Zirr b. Hubaish reported that Ubayy b. Ka’b (Allah be pleased with him) said about Lailat-ul-Qadr: By Allah, I know well about it. Shu’ba said: To the best of my knowledge it was the twenty-seventh night for which the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded us to stand for prayer. Shu’ba doubted these words: That it was the night for which the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded us to stand for prayer. And (he further) said: This was narrated to me by a friend of mine from him (the Holy Prophet).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2635.

Chapter: Excellence of Lailat-ul Qadar and exhortation to find it. Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We were talking about Lailat-ul-Qadr in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and he said: He Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com who amongst you remembers (the night) when the moon arose and it was like a piece of plate (at the fag end of the month in a state of waning).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2636.

Chapter: Observing of I’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadhan. Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe i’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2637.

Chapter: Observing of I’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadhan. Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe i’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. Nafi’ said: Abdullah (Allah be pleased with him) showed me the place in the mosque where the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe i’tikaf.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2638.

Chapter: Observing of I’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadhan. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to observe i’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2639.

Chapter: Observing of I’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadhan. This Hadith has been narrated by ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) through another chain of transmitters.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2640.

Chapter: Observing of I’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadhan. Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him) used to observe i’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan till Allah called him back (to his heavenly home). Then his wives observed i’tikaf after him.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2641.

Chapter: When should a person enter the place of I’tikaf as he intends to observe it. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) decided to observe i’tikaf, he prayed in the morning and then went to the place of his i’tikaf, and he commanded that a tent should be pitched for him, and it was pitched. He (once) decided to observe i’tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. Zainab (the wife of the Holy Prophet) commanded that a tent should be pitched for her. It was pitched accordingly. And some other wives of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) commanded that tents should be pitched for them too. And they were pitched. When the Messenger of Allah (may peace he upon him) offered the morning prayer, he looked and found (so many) tents. Thereupon he said: What is this virtue that these (ladies) have decided to acquire? He commanded his tent to be struck and abandoned i’tikaf in the month of Ramadan and postponed it to the first ten days of Shawwal.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2642.

Chapter: When should a person enter the place of I’tikaf as he intends to observe it. This Hadith has been reported through another chain of transmitters, and there it is mentioned that. ‘Aisha, Hafsa and Zainab (Allah be pleased with them) pitched the tents for i’tikaf.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2643.

Chapter: One should exert more (in devotion and prayer) in the last ten days of Ramadhan. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that when the last ten nights began Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) kept awake at night (for prayer and devotion), wakened his family, and prepared himself to observe prayer (with more vigour).

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2644.

Chapter: One should exert more (in devotion and prayer) in the last ten days of Ramadhan. Hadith Collection | www.HadithCollection.com ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to exert himself in devotion during the last ten nights to a greater extent than at any other time.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2645.

Chapter: Fasting on the 10th Dhu’l-Hijja. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: I never saw the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) fasting in the ten days of Dhu’I-Hijja.

SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 6. FASTING

Sahih Muslim Book 6, Hadith Number 2646.

Chapter: Fasting on the 10th Dhu’l-Hijja. ‘Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) did not observe fast in the ten days of Dhul-Hijja

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