English translation
7299. Narrated Abū Hurairah رضي الله عنه: The Prophet ﷺ said (to his Companions), "Do not observe Al-Wišāl."(1) They said, "But you observe Al-Wišāl." He said, "I am not like you, for at night my Lord (Allāh) feeds me and makes me drink." But the people did not give up Al-Wišāl, so the Prophet ﷺ observed Al-Wišāl with them for two days or two nights, and then they saw the crescent whereupon the Prophet ﷺ said, "If the crescent had delayed, I would have continued fasting (because of you)," as if he wanted to punish them (because they had refused to give up Al-Wišāl).
