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1539. 'Umar narrated: "I said, 'O Messenger of Allāh! I had vowed to perform I'tikāf in Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām for a night during the era of Jāhiliyyah.' He said: 'Fulfill your vow.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr, and Ibn 'Abbās.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The Ḥadīth of 'Umar is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
Some of the people of knowledge followed this Ḥadīth. They said that when a man accepts Islām and he had (previously) made a vow to do some act of obedience, then he is obliged to fulfill it.
Some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and others, said that there is no I'tikāf without fasting. Others among the people of knowledge said that it is not
required for the person performing I'tikāf to fast, unless he made fasting obligatory upon himself. They used the Hadīth of 'Umar as proof, in which he had vowed during Jāhiliyyah to perform I'tikāf for a night, and the Prophet ﷺ ordered him to fulfill it. This is the view of Aḥmad and Ishāq.
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Most of the scholars agree that even a vow of a virtuous deed brings no benefit to a disbeliever. This narration proves that if a disbeliever vows for something good and virtuous in nature, he will have to fulfill his vow if he accepts Islam.
