Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 3397
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ السَّخْتِيَانِيُّ، عَنِ ابْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَجَدَهُمْ يَصُومُونَ يَوْمًا، يَعْنِي عَاشُورَاءَ، فَقَالُوا هَذَا يَوْمٌ عَظِيمٌ، وَهْوَ يَوْمٌ نَجَّى اللَّهُ فِيهِ مُوسَى، وَأَغْرَقَ آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ، فَصَامَ مُوسَى شُكْرًا لِلَّهِ. فَقَالَ " أَنَا أَوْلَى بِمُوسَى مِنْهُمْ ". فَصَامَهُ وَأَمَرَ بِصِيَامِهِ.
ʿAli ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us: Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani narrated to us, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), that when the Prophet ﷺ came to Medina, he found the people fasting on a day—meaning ʿAshura. They said, ‘This is a great day, the day Allah saved Musa and drowned Pharaoh’s people. Musa fasted it in gratitude to Allah.’ The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘I have more right to Musa than they do.’ So he fasted it and ordered that it be fasted.
Translation notes
Rendered the source’s parenthetical identification of the day as ʿAshura and its reference to Pharaoh’s people.