Sunan an-Nasa'i 2386
Fasting for two thirds of one's lifetime
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي عَمَّارٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ قَالَ
أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ صَامَ الدَّهْرَ كُلَّهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَدِدْتُ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَطْعَمِ الدَّهْرَ شَيْئًا قَالَ فَثُلُثَيْهِ قَالَ أَكْثَرَ قَالَ فَنِصْفَهُ قَالَ أَكْثَرَ قَالَ أَفَلاَ أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِمَا يُذْهِبُ وَحَرَ الصَّدْرِ قَالُوا بَلَى قَالَ صِيَامُ ثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū ʿAmmār
- ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl
"A man came to the Messenger of Allah and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what do you say about a man who fated for the rest of his life?' The Messenger of Allah said: 'I wish that he would never eat for the rest of his life.' He said: 'Two-thirds ( of a lifetime)?' he said: 'That is too much.' He said: 'Half?' He said: 'Shall I not tell you of that which will take away impurity from the heart?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Fasting for three days each month."' 'Ata said: "someone who heard him told me that Ibn 'Umar (said) that the Prophet said: 'Whoever fasts every day of his life, then he has not fasted."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Albani
صحيح [لغيره]
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) [through other chains (li-ghayrihi)]
in صحيح النسائي, p. 2385
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2413al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3229al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4697al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4963Musnad al-Bazzar 9404Musnad Abi Ya'la 4581
Narrators
- Trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. 63 AH, or: 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 63 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ شُرَحْبِيلَ الْهَمْدَانِيُّثقة عابد مخضرمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHأَبِي ج١ / ص٤٧٧عَمَّارٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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