Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 3831

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ هِشَامٌ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ قَالَتْ كَانَ عَاشُورَاءُ يَوْمًا تَصُومُهُ قُرَيْشٌ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، وَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَصُومُهُ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ صَامَهُ وَأَمَرَ بِصِيَامِهِ، فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ رَمَضَانُ كَانَ مَنْ شَاءَ صَامَهُ، وَمَنْ شَاءَ لاَ يَصُومُهُ‏.‏

Translation

Musaddad narrated to us: Yahya narrated to us. Hisham said: My father narrated to me, from ʿAʾisha, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: “ʿAshuraʾ was a day that Quraysh used to fast in pre-Islamic times, and the Prophet used to fast it. When he came to Medina, he fasted it and commanded that it be fasted. When Ramadan was prescribed, whoever wished fasted it, and whoever wished did not fast it.”