Fasting & Ramadan

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The Book of Fasting

When there comes the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained,

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The Book of Fasting

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: When it is the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained.

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The Book of Fasting

" When (the month of) Ramadan begins."

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The Book of Fasting

Do not fast till you see the new moon, and do not break fast till you see it; but if the weather is cloudy calculate about it.

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The Book of Fasting

The month is thus and thus. (He then withdrew his thumb at the third time). He then said: Fast when you see it, and break your fast when you see it, and if the weather is cloudy calculate it (the...

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The Book of Fasting

If (the sky) is cloudy for you, then calculate thirty days (for the month of Ramadan).

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The Book of Fasting

The month may consist of twenty-nine days, and it may be thus, thus and thus, and (he further) said: Calculate it, but he did not say thirty.

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The Book of Fasting

The month of Ramadan may consist of twenty-nine days. So do not fast till you have sighted it (the new moon) and do not break fast, till you have sighted it (the new moon of Shawwal), and if the sky...

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The Book of Fasting

The month (of Ramadan) may consist of twenty nine days; so when you see the new moon observe fast and when you see (the new moon again at the commencement of the month of Shawwal) then break It, and if...

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The Book of Fasting

When you see the new moon, observe fast, and when you see it (again) then break it, and if the sky is cloudy for you, then calculate it.

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The Book of Fasting

The month may consist of twenty-nine nights. So do not fast till you have sighted it (the new moon) and do not break it till you have sighted it, except when the sky is cloudy for you, and if it...

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The Book of Fasting

The month is thus and thus and thus (i. e. pointing with his fingers thrice), and he held back his thumb at the third time (in order to show that it can also consist of twenty-nine days).

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The Book of Fasting

The month may consist of twenty-nine days.

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The Book of Fasting

The month (of Ramadan) is thus and thus, and thus. i.e. ten, ten and nine.

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The Book of Fasting

The month is thus, and thus, and thus, and he flapped his hands with all their fingers twice. but at the third turn, folded his right thumb or left thumb (in order to give an idea of twenty-nine).

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The Book of Fasting

The month (of Ramadan) may consist of twenty nine days, and Shu'ba (one of the narrators) (gave a practical demonstration how the Holy prophet (ﷺ) explained to them) by unfolding his hands thrice and folding his thumb at the third...

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The Book of Fasting

We are an unlettered people who can neither write nor count. The month is thus, and thus. folding his thumb when he said it the third time.

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The Book of Fasting

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Aswad b. Qais with the same chain of transmitters, but herein no mention has been made of the other month (consisting of) thirty days.

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The Book of Fasting

This night is the midnight (of the month). Upon this he said to him: How do you know that it is the midnight (of the month), for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The month is thus...

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The Book of Fasting

Whenever you sight the new moon (of the month of Ramadan) observe fast. and when you sight it (the new moon of Shawwal) break it, and if the sky is cloudy for you, then observe fast for thirty days.