“A Bedouin came to the Prophet(ﷺ) and said: ‘I have seen the new crescent tonight.’ He said:‘Doyou bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped butAllahand that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?’ He said:‘Yes.’ Hesaid: ‘Get up, O Bilal, and announce to the peoplethat they shouldfast tomorrow.’” Abu 'Ali said: "This is how itwas narrated from Walid bin AbuThawr and Hasan bin 'Ali. It wasalso narrated from Hammad binSalamah, but he did not mentionIbn 'Abbas. He said: 'And heannounced that they shouldperform the prayer and that theyshould fast.'"

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)usedto say from the pulpit, before the month of Ramadan: ‘Fastingwillbegin on such and such a day, but we are going to start fastingearlier, so whoever wants to start fasting earlier (i.e., inSha’ban),let him do so, and whoever wants to wait until Ramadanbegins, let himdo so.’”

“InParadise there is a gate called Rayyan. On the Day of Resurrectionthecall will go out saying: ‘Where are those who used to fast?’Whoeveris among those who used to fast will enter it, and whoeverenters itwill never experience thirst again.”

“When the first night of Ramadan comes, the satans andmischievousjinns are chained up, and the gates of the Fire areclosed, and noneof its gates are opened. The gates of Paradise areopened and none ofits gates are closed. And a caller cries out: ‘Oseeker of good,proceed, O seeker of evil, stop.’ And Allah has necks(people) whomHe frees (from the Fire), and that happens every day.”

“Every good deed of the son of Adam will be multiplied manifold.Agood deed will be multiplied ten times up to as many as sevenhundredtimes, or as much as Allah wills. Allah says: ‘Except forfasting,which is for Me and I shall reward for it. He gives up hisdesire andhis food for My sake.’ The fasting person has two joys, onewhen hebreaks his fast and another when he meets his Lord. The smellthatcomes from the mouth of a fasting person is better before Allahthanthe fragrance of musk.”