The Book on Fasting

كتاب الصوم عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 54: What Has Been Related About Fasting Three (Days) Of Every Month

Yazid Ar-Rishk said

"I heard Mu'adhah saying to Aishah: 'Did the Messenger of Allah fast three days of every month?' She replied in the affirmative. So she said: 'Which of them would he fast?' She said: 'Which of them he would fast was not noticeable.'"

Chapter 55: What Has Been Related About The Virtues Of Fasting

Abu Hurairah narrated that

The Messenger of Allah said: "Indeed your Lord said: 'Every good deed is rewarded with ten of the same up to seven hundred times over. Fasting is for Me, and I shall reward for it.' Fasting is a shield from the Fire. The smell coming from the mouth of the one fasting is more pleasant to Allah than the scent of musk. If one of you is abused by an ignorant person while fasting, then let him say: 'Indeed I am fasting.'"

Sahl bin Sa'd narrated that

The Prophet said: "There is a gate in Paradise called Ar-Raiyyan, those who fast shall be invited into it, and whoever was among those who fasted, then he will enter it; and whoever enters it, he will never thirst again."

Chapter 58: What Has Been Related About It Being Dislike To Fast On The Day Of Fitr And The Day Of Nahr

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated

"The Messenger of Allah prohibited two fasts: Fasting the Day of Adha and the Day of Fitr."

Chapter 59: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Fast The Days Of Tashriq

Uqbah bin Amir narrated that

The Messenger of Allah said: "The Day of Arafah, the Day of Nahr, and the Days of Tashriq are Eid for us. The people of Islam, and they are days of eating and drinking,"

Chapter 61: What Has Been Related About Permission For That

Ibn Abbas narrated

"The Prophet was cupped while he was fasting."

Chapter 21: What Has Been Related About The Permission For The Pregnant And Breast-Feeding Women To Break The Fast

Anas bin Malik, a man from Banu Abdullah bin Ka'b said

"Some cavalry man of the Messenger of Allah came galloping upon us, so I came to the Messenger of Allah and found him having lunch. He said: "Come and eat." I said: 'I am fasting.' So he said: 'Come and I will narrate to you about the fast - or fasting. Indeed Allah Most High lifted (the fast and) half of the Salat from the traveler, and (He lifted) the fast - or fasting - from the pregnant person, or the breast-feeding person.' And by Allah! The Prophet said both of them or one of them. So woe to me! For I did not eat from the meal of the Prophet."

Chapter 22: What Has Been Related About Fasting On Behalf Of The Dead

Ibn Abbas narrated

(A Hadith similar to no. 716 with a different chain.)

Chapter 26: What Has Been Related About The Fasting Person Eating Or Drinking Forgetfully

Abu Hurairah narrated

(Another chain) with the same or similar (Hadith as no. 721).

Chapter 29: What Has Been Related About The Siwak For The Fasting Person

Abdullah bin Amir bin Rabi'ah narrated from his father who said

"I saw the Prophet - (a number of times) such that I was not able to count - using the Siwak while he was fasting."

Chapter 35: Performing A Voluntary Fast Without Planning It The Night Before

Aishah, the Mother of the Believers, narrated

"The Messenger of Allah visited me one day and said: 'Do you have anything (to eat)?'" She said: "I said: 'No.' He said: 'Then I am fasting.'"

Chapter 36: What Has Been Reported About: The Obligation On Him To Make Up

Aishah narrated

"Hafsah and I were both fasting when we were presented some food that we really wanted, so we ate from it. The Messenger of Allah came, and Hafsah beat me to him - she was the daughter of her father - and she said: 'O Messenger of Allah! We were both fasting when we were presented with some food that we wanted, so we ate from it.' He said: 'Make up another day in its place.'"

Chapter 39: What Has Been Related About The Middle Night Of Sha'ban

Aishah narrated

"I could not find the Messenger of Allah one night. So I left and found him at Al-Baqi. He said: 'Did you fear that you had been wronged by Allah and His Messenger?' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! I thought that you had gone to one of your wives.' So he said: 'Indeed Allah, Mighty and Sublime is He, descends to the lowest Heavens during the night of the middle of Sha'ban, to grant forgiveness to more than the number of hairs on the sheep of (Banu) Kalb.'"

Chapter 47: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Fast The Day of Arafah While At Arafat

Ibn Abbas narrated

"The Prophet broke (the fast) of Arafah, Umm Fadl sent him some milk to drink."

Ibn Abi Najib narrated from his father who said

"Ibn Umar was asked about fasting (the Day of) Arafah (at Arafat). He said: 'I performed Hajj with the Prophet, and he did not fast it, and with Abu Bakr, and he did not fast it, and with Umar, and he did not fast it, and with Uthman, and he did not fast it. I do no fast it, nor order it nor forbid it."

Chapter 50: What Has Been Related About Which Day Ashura Is

Al-Hakam bin Al-Arfaj said

"I met up with Ibn Abbas while he was reclining on his Rida at the Zamzam (well). So I said: 'Inform me about the Day of Ashura. On which day is it fasted?' He said: 'When you see the crescent of Al-Muharram, then count, then fast on the morning of the ninth day.'" He said: 'I said: Is this how Muhammad fasted it?' He said: 'Yes.'"

Ibn Abbas narrated

"The Messenger of Allah ordered fasting the tenth day for the Day of Ashura."

Chapter 51: What Has Been Related About Fasting The Ten (Days Of Dhul-Hijjah)

Aishah narrated

"I did not see the Prophet fasting at all during the ten."

Chapter 52: What Has Been Related About Deeds During The Ten Days (Of Dhul-Hijjah)

Ibn Abbas narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than those ten days." They said: "O Messenger of Allah! Not even Jihad in Allah Cause?" The Messenger of Allah said: "Not even Jihad in Allah's Cause, unless a man were to out with his self and his wealth and not return from that with anything."

Chapter 53: What Has Been Related About Fasting The Six Days Of Shawwal

Abu Ayub narrated that

the Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever fasts Ramadan, then follows it with six from Shawwal, then that is (equal in reward) to fasting everyday."