ibn Mas'ud · The Book of Fasting

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.

" I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'The month is twenty-nine days."'

"We are an unlettered Ummah, we do not use astronomical counting or computation. The month is like this, and this, and this," he did three times, showing it as twenty-nine.

"The Messenger of Allah said to a man: 'Come to the blessed breakfast, - meaning Sahur." '

"Fasting is a shield against the Fire. Whoever starts the day of fasting, let him not act in an ignorant manner during that day. If anyone treats him in an ignorant maner, let him not insult him or curse him, rather let him say: "I am fasting.' By the One in whole hand is the soul of Muhammad, the smell that comes from the mouth of a fasting person is better before Allah than the fragrance of musk."

"For those who fast there is a gate in Paradise called Ar-Rayyan, through which no one but they will enter. When the last of them has entered it, it will be closed. Whoever enters through it will drink, and whoever drinks will never thirst again."

"The Messenger of Allah used to be keen to fast on Mondays and Thursday."