Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 3612
✧ One who saw no harm in continuous fasting if he did not fear weakness for himself, and broke his fast on the days on which fasting was prohibited
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَخْبَرَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ، حَدَّثَنَا جَدِّي، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا، سَأَلَ ابْنَ الْمُبَارَكِ: عَنِ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي يَصُومُ يَوْمًا وَيُفْطِرُ يَوْمًا،
قَالَ: " يُضَيِّعُ نِصْفَ عُمْرِهِ أَيْ لَا يَصُومُهَا فَيُضَيِّعُها "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl informed me, my grandfather narrated to us, ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān narrated to us, he said: I heard a man ask Ibn al-Mubārak about the man who fasts one day and breaks his fast the next day,
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He said: "He wastes half of his life," meaning: he does not fast them, so he wastes them.
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