English translation
[2694] 155 - (...) It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbās [may Allāh be pleased with them] said: “A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, my mother has died and she owed one month’s fasting. Shall I make it up on her behalf?’ He said: ‘Don’t you think that if your mother owed a debt, you would pay it off on her behalf?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘The debt owed to Allāh is more deserving of being paid off.’” (One of the narrators) Sulaimān said: “When we were sitting and Muslim[1] narrated this Hadīth, Al-Ḥakam and Salamah bin Kuhail both said: ‘We heard Mujāhid quote this from Ibn ‘Abbās.’”