English translation
[2743] 193 - (...) ‘Abdullâh bin ‘Amr said: “The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said to me: ‘O ‘Abdullâh bin ‘Amr, I have heard that you fast all day and pray all night. Do not do that, for your body is entitled to a share from you, your eye is entitled to a share from you, and your wife is entitled to a share from you. Fast and break the fast, fast three days of every month, for that is like fasting for a lifetime.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allâh, I have the strength.’ He said: ‘Then observe the fast of Dâwûd, – ﷺ –, fast one day and not the next.’” And he (‘Abdullâh bin ‘Amr) used to say: “Would that I had accepted the concession.”