Fasting & Ramadan

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break (fast) on sighting it (the new moon), but if the sky is cloudy for you, then complete the number (of thirty).

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break it on sighting it. But if (due to clouds) the actual position of the month is concealed from you, you should then count thirty (days).

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Observe fast when you see it (the new moon) and break fast when you see it (the new moon of Shawwal), but when (the actual position of the month is) concealed from you (on account of cloudy sky), then count...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Do not observe fast for a day, or two days ahead of Ramadan except a person who is in the habit of observing a particular fast; he may fast on that day.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Abi Kathir with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

When twenty-nine nights were over, which I had counted, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to me (he came to me first of all). I said: Messenger of Allah, you had taken an oath that you would not come to...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

) He came to us on the twenty-ninth day, whereupon we said: It is the twenty-ninth (day) today. Thereupon he said: So far as the month is concerned, (and he, with a view to explaining it) flapped his hands thrice,...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) separated himself from his wives for a month. (His wives said: ) He came to us on the morning of the twenty-ninth. Upon this some, of the people said: It is the morning of twenty-...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Apostle of Allah, you took an oath that you would not come to us for a month, whereupon he said: The month may also consist of twenty-nine days.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

The month is thus, thus (two times). He then withdrew (one of) his fingers at the third turn.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

Tho month is thus and thus, and thus, i. e. ten, ten and nine.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

This hadith has been narrated by Ibn Abu Khalid with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

When did you see it? I said: We saw it on the night of Friday. He said: (Did) you see it yourself? I said: Yes, and the people also saw it and they fasted and Mu'awiya also fasted, whereupon he...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

We went out to perform Umra and when we encamped in the valley of Nakhla, we tried to see the new moon. Some of the people said: It was three nights old, and others (said) that it was two nights...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

We saw the new moon of Ramadan as we were at Dhit-i-'Irq. We sent a man to Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) to ask him (whether the sighting of a small moon had something of the...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

The two months of 'Id, Ramadan and Dhu'l-Hijja (are not incomplete).

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

The months of 'Id are not incomplete. And in the hadith narrated by Khalid (the words are):" The months, of 'Id are Ramadan and Dhu'l-Hijja."

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

" Until the white streak of the dawn becomes distinct from the dark streak" (ii. 187) Adi b. Hatim said: Messenger of Allah, verily I keep underneath my pillow two strings, one white and the other black, by which I...

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Fasting

" Eat and drink till the white streak is distinct from the dark streak," a person would take hold of a white thread and a black thread and keep on eating till he could find them distinct (in the light...