Fasting & Ramadan

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

Mansur al-Kalbi said: Dihyah ibn Khalifah once went out from a village of Damascus at as much distance as it measures between Aqabah and al-Fustat during Ramadan; and that is three miles. He then broke his fast and the people...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

Ibn 'Umar used to go out to al-Ghabah (jungle), but he neither broke his fast, nor shortened his prayer.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: One of you should not say: I fasted the whole of Ramadan, and I prayed during the night in the whole of Ramadan. I do not know whether he disliked the purification; or he (the narrator)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

I attended the 'Id (prayer) along with 'Umar. He offered prayer before the sermon. He then said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited fasting on these two days. As regards Id al-Adha, you eat the meat of your sacrificial animals....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade fasting on two days, al-Fitr (breaking the fast of Ramadan) and al-Adha (the day of sacrifice), and wearing a tight single garment the raising of which discloses private parts, and sitting with one's legs...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

Eat. He said: I am fasting. 'Amr said: Eat, these are the days on which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to command us to break fast, and forbid us to keep fast. The narrator Malik said: These are the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The day of Arafah, the day of sacrifice, the days of tashriq are (the days of) our festival, O people of Islam. These are the days of eating and drinking.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: None of you must fast on Friday unless he fasts the day before or the day after.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not fast on Saturday except what has been made obligatory on you; and if one of you can get nothing but a grape skin or a piece of wood from a tree, he should chew...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

That the Prophet (ﷺ) entered upon her on Friday while she was fasting. He asked: Did you fast yesterday ? She said: No. He again asked: Do you intend to fast tomorrow ? She said: No. He said: So break...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

When it was mentioned to Ibn Shihab (al-Zuhri) that fasting on Saturday had been prohibited, he would say: This is a Himsi tradition.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

I always concealed it, but I found that it became known widely, that is, the tradition on Ibn Busr about fasting on Saturday. Abu Dawud said: Malik said: This is a false (tradition).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: How do you fast, Messenger of Allah? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) became angry at what he said. When Umar observed this (his anger), he said: We are satisfied with Allah...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

He said: Messenger of Allah, tell me about keeping fast on Monday and Thursday. He said: On it I was born, and on it the Qur'an was first revealed to me.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) met me and said: Have I not been informed that you told: I shall stand at prayer all the night, and I shall fast during the day ? He said: I think so. Yes, Messenger...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The father or Uncle of Mujibah al-Bahiliyyah visited the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He then went away and came to him (again) after one year when his condition and appearance had changed. He said: Messenger of Allah, do you not...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The most excellent fast after Ramadan is Allah's month al-Muharram, and the most excellent prayer after the prescribed prayer is the prayer during night.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

I asked Sa'id b. Jubair about fasting during Rajab. He said: Ibn 'Abbas told me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to fast to such an extent that we thought that he would never break his fast; and he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

The month most liked by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for fasting was Sha'ban. He then joined it with Ramadan.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

I asked or someone asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about perpetual fasting. He replied: You have a duty to your family. Fast during Ramadan and the following month, and every Wednesday and Thursday. You will then have observed a perpetual fast.