My question is we keep some fasts during Rajjab & Shaban months whether this has come in Hadis (authentic)?
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has come in Hadis (authentic)?
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Fast in rajab and shabaan
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Hadrat Aisha (r.a.) reported that she did not witness the
Messenger of Allah (saws) fasting more in any month other than Ramadan than in
the month of Shaabaan. It was the Sunnah
of the Messenger of Allah (saws) that he (saws) would fast many days in the
month of Shabaan in preparation for the fasting of Ramadan, but he (saws) would
stop fasting in the last few days of Shabaan so as not to mix them with the
fasts of Ramadan.
Aishah said: "I never saw the Messenger
of Allah (saws) fast a complete month save for Ramadan, and I have never seen
him fast more in a month than he did in Sha'ban."
Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Usamah ibn Zaid inquired: "O Messenger
of Allah (saws), I never find you fasting in any month like you do during the
month of Sha'ban." The Prophet
(saws) responded: "That is a month the people neglect. It comes between
Rajab and Ramadan. It is a month in which the deeds are raised to the Lord of
the Worlds. I love that my deeds be raised while I am fasting."
Related by Abu Dawud, an-Nasa'i, and by Ibn
Khuzaimah.
Other than the month of Shabaan, there is no other month
of the calendar which the Prophet (saws) specified as special or meritorious
for voluntary fasting; but as was his normal practice he (saws) would, more
often than not, perform voluntary fasts on the 13th, 14th
and 15th of each of the other months, and the Mondays and Thursdays
of the week.
There is absolutely no evidence in the authentic and
established Sunnah that voluntary fasts during the month of Rajab has any more
virtue or merit than the voluntary fasts of other months.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister