English translation
2003. Narrated Ḥumaid bin ‘Abdur-Raḥmān that he heard Mu‘āwiya bin Abī Sufyān رضي الله عنهما on the day of ‘Āshūra’ during the year he performed the Hajj, saying on the pulpit, “O the people of Al-Madīna! Where are your religious scholars? I heard Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ saying, ‘This is the day of ‘Āshūra’. Allāh has not enjoined its Saum (fast) on you but I am fasting it. You have the choice either to observe Saum (fast) or not to observe Saum (fast) (on this day).’”
