Narrated Nafi`: Ibn `Umar recited: They had a choice, either fast or feed a poor for every day.. and added, This Verse is abrogated.
Read More..Narrated Salama: When the Divine Revelation: For those who can fast, they had a choice either fast, or feed a poor for every day, (2.184) was revealed, it was permissible for one to give a ransom and give up fasting, till the Verse succeeding it was revealed and abrogated it.
Read More..Narrated Al-Bara: When the order of compulsory fasting of Ramadan was revealed, the people did not have sexual relations with their wives for the whole month of Ramadan, but some men cheated themselves (by violating that restriction). So Allah revealed:-- Allah is aware that you were deceiving yourselves but He accepted your repentance and for gave you.. (3.187)
Read More..Narrated Ash-Shu`bi: `Adi took a white rope (or thread) and a black one, and when some part of the night had passed, he looked at them but he could not distinguish one from the other. The next morning he said, O Allah's Apostle! I put (a white thread and a black thread) underneath my pillow. The Prophet said, Then your pillow is too wide if the white thread (of dawn) and the black thread (of the night) are underneath your pillow!
Read More..Narrated `Adi bin Hatim: I said, O Allah's Messenger ! What is the meaning of the white thread distinct from the black thread? Are these two threads? He said, You are not intelligent if you watch the two threads. He then added, No, it is the darkness of the night and the whiteness of the day.''
Read More..Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d The Verse And eat and drink until the white thread appears to you distinct: from the black thread. was revealed, but: '... of dawn' was not revealed (along with it) so some men, when intending to fast, used to tie their legs, one with white thread and the other with black thread and would keep on eating till they could distinguish one thread from the other. Then Allah revealed' ... of dawn,' whereupon they understood that meant the night and the day.
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