30/62. Chapter:
Sahih Bukhari 1983 — Fasting
Fasting the last days of the month
Sahih Bukhari : 1983
Sahih BukhariHadith Number 1983
حَدَّثَنَا الصَّلْتُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيٌّ، عَنْ غَيْلاَنَ،. وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ، حَدَّثَنَا غَيْلاَنُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم. أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ ـ أَوْ سَأَلَ رَجُلاً وَعِمْرَانُ يَسْمَعُ ـ فَقَالَ " يَا أَبَا فُلاَنٍ أَمَا صُمْتَ سَرَرَ هَذَا الشَّهْرِ ". قَالَ أَظُنُّهُ قَالَ يَعْنِي رَمَضَانَ. قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لاَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ. قَالَ " فَإِذَا أَفْطَرْتَ فَصُمْ يَوْمَيْنِ ". لَمْ يَقُلِ الصَّلْتُ أَظُنُّهُ يَعْنِي رَمَضَانَ. قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ وَقَالَ ثَابِثٌ عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مِنْ سَرَرِ شَعْبَانَ ".
'Imran bin Husain Narrated from:
The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him (Imran) or asked a man and `Imran was listening, "O Abu so-and-so! Have you fasted the last days of this month?" (The narrator thought that he said, "the month of Ramadan"). The man replied, "No, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, "When you finish your fasting (of Ramadan) fast two days (in Shawwal)." Through another series of narrators `Imran said, "The Prophet (ﷺ) said, '(Have you fasted) the last days of Sha'ban?"
[1] The man whom the Prophet ﷺ asked seemed to have had the habit of observing Ṣaum (fast) on the last days of every month, but he did not carry on this habit in the month of Sha'bān , for Allāh's Messenger ﷺ had forbidden the Ṣaum (fast) of the day preceding Ramaḍān immediately. In this narration the Prophet ﷺ orders the man to make up for the days of Sha'bān which he missed by observing Ṣaum (fast) on some days in Shawwāl , and that indicates that one should keep his habits of worshipping, and there is no harm if one observes Ṣaum (fast) the last days of Sha'bān if it is his habit to Ṣaum the last days of every month. ( Fath Al-Bārī )Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 1983In-book reference : Book 30, Hadith 90USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 3, Book 31, Hadith 204
