Sahih Muslim 1164a
It is recommended to fast Six Days in Shawwal following Ramadan
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ جَمِيعًا عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ ابْنُ أَيُّوبَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ أَخْبَرَنِي سَعْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ ثَابِتِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْخَزْرَجِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ ؓ أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
«مَنْ صَامَ رَمَضَانَ ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَهُ سِتًّا مِنْ شَوَّالٍ كَانَ كَصِيَامِ الدَّهْرِ».
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Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb and Qutaybah b. Saʿīd Waʿalī b. Ḥujr Jamīʿ
- Ismāʿīl
- Ibn Ayyūb
- Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar
- Saʿd b. Saʿīd b. Qays
- ʿUmar b. Thābit b. al-Ḥārith al-Khazrajī
- Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever fasts Ramadan, then follows it with six days of Shawwal, it is like fasting a lifetime."
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- Misykatul Mashabih 2047وَعَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَنْ صَامَ رَمَضَانَ ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَهُ سِتًّا مِنْ شَوَّال كَانَ كصيام الدَّهْر». رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1715Musnad Ahmad 14302Musnad Ahmad 14303al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3915Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7980
Narrators
- One of the senior Companions.d. 50 AH. Or: 52 AH. Or: 55 AH, also said: 51 AH.أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّمن كبار الصحابة.حدثه
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AHعُمَرَ بْنِ ثَابِتِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْخَزْرَجِيِّثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. 141 AHسَعْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍصدوق سيء الحفظأخبرني
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 180 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, also said: 241 AH, also said: 243 AHوَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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