al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2718
✧ Fasting ten days of the month and the differences in wording among the narrators regarding the report of Abu al-Abbas from Abdullah bin Amr about it.
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أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْكُوفِيُّ عَنْ أَسْبَاطِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ
قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ تَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ وَتَصُومُ النَّهَارَ؟» قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا أَرَدْتُ بِذَلِكَ إِلَّا الْخَيْرَ قَالَ «لَا صَامَ مَنْ صَامَ الْأَبَدَ وَلَكِنْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى صَوْمِ الدَّهْرِ ثَلَاثَةُ أَيَّامٍ مِنَ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ» قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنِّي أُطِيقُ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ «فَصُمْ خَمْسَةَ أَيَّامٍ» قُلْتُ إِنِّي أُطِيقُ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ «فَصُمْ عَشْرًا» قُلْتُ إِنِّي أُطِيقُ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ «فَصُمْ صَوْمَ دَاوُدَ وَكَانَ يَصُومُ يَوْمًا وَيُفْطِرُ يَوْمًا»
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd al-Kūfī
- Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad
- Muṭarrif
- Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
- Abū al-ʿAbbās
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: "It has reached me that you stand in prayer at night and fast during the day?" I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I intended nothing but good by that." He said, "No one who fasts forever has fasted. But let me guide you to the fasting of a lifetime: three days of every month." I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I can do better than that." He said, "Then fast five days." I said, "I can do better than that." He said, "Then fast ten days." I said, "I can do better than that." He said, "Then fast the fast of Dawud, and he used to fast one day and break his fast the next day."
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