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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
  1. Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Abū ʿAmmār
  5. 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 ZaiSoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0).hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahih Lighairihifawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

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Narrators

  1. Trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. 63 AH, or: 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 63 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ شُرَحْبِيلَ الْهَمْدَانِيُّثقة عابد مخضرم
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
    أَبِي ج١ / ص٤٧٧عَمَّارٍثقة
    عن
  3. 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 AH
    الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    حدثنا
  4. 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 AH
    أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظ
    أخبرنا
  6. the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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