Fasting on Friday and Saturday
Abu Hurayrah quotes the Prophet as saying:
None of you should fast on Friday unless he fasts a day before or after it.
According to a Rivayah of Muslim:
"Do not single out Friday night rather than other nights for praying at night and do not single out Friday for fasting rather than other days unless it forms part of a fast that one of you is fasting." (Bukhari, Sawm: 63; Muslim, Sıyam: 147,148; Abu Dawud, Sawm: 50; Tirmidhi, Sawm: 42)
Abdullah Ibn Busr as-Salmi related from his sister as-Samma (may Allah be pleased with her):
Rasulullah (pbuh) said:
"Do not fast on Saturday, unless it is part of what Allah has prescribed for you. If you could not find anything to eat but a grape skin or a piece of wood, you should chew it." (And after all you should not be fasting).
(Abu Dawud, Sawm: 51; Tirmidhi, Sawm: 43; Ibn Majah, Siyam: 38)
- Fasting during the Winter Days
- Is it permissible for me to fast consecutively to compensate that I missed?
- Is it permissible for a pregnant and breast-feeding woman not to fast?
- Pregnant woman and fasting
- Pregnant Women and Fasting
- Nafila (supererogatory) Fasting
- Is it permissible for a pregnant and breast-feeding woman to fast?
- The month of Shaban
- When is it appropriate to perform fasting about holy nights; on the day before the night or after the night?
- The duration of Suhur and the time of the Morning Prayer