Narrated Ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم prohibited perpetual fasting. They (the people) said: You keep perpetual fasting, Messenger of Allah. He said: My position is not like that you yours. I am provided with food and drink.
Read More..Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Do not observe perpetual fasting. If any of you wants to observe perpetual fast, he should observe it until the dawn. They (the people) asked: You observe perpetual fast ? He replied: My position is not like that of yours. There is One Who gives me to eat, and there is One who gives me to drink.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: If anyone does not abandon falsehood and action is accordance with it, Allah has no need that he should abandon his food and drink. The narrator Ahmad (b. Yunus) said: I learnt the chain of narrators from Ibn Abi Dhi'b, and a man by his side made me understand the tradition. I think he was his cousin.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Fast is a shield ; when one of you is fasting, he should neither behave in an obscene manner nor foolishly. If a man fights or abuses him, he should say: I am fasting, I am fasting.
Read More..Narrated Amir ibn Rabiah: I have seen the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم using a tooth-stick while he was fasting. Musaddad added in his version: more often than I could count.
Read More..Narrated A Companion of the Prophet: Abu Bakr ibn Abdur Rahman reported on the authority of a Companion of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم: I saw the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanding the people while he was travelling on the occasion of the conquest of Makkah not to observe fast. He said: Be strong for your enemy. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم fasted himself. Narrated Abu Bakr: A man who narrated his tradition to me said: I have seen the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم in al-Arj pouring water over his head while he was fasting, either because of thirst or because of heat.
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