English translation
732. Simāk bin Ḥarb narrated: “A person from the offspring of Umm Hānī’ narrated to me – I met one of the most virtuous among them, and his name was Ja’dah, and Umm Hānī’ was his grandmother – he narrated to me from his grandmother that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ entered upon her and asked for some drink, and he drank. Then he offered it to her and she drank it. Then she said: “O Messenger of Allāh! I was fasting.” So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “The one fasting a voluntary fast is the trustee for himself; if he wishes he fasts, and if he wishes he breaks.” Shu’bah (one of the narrators) said: “I said to him (Ja’dah):[1] ‘Did you hear this from Umm Hānī’?’ He said: ‘No Abū Ṣāliḥ and our family informed us of it from Umm Hānī'.” (Da'if) Hammād bin Salamah reported this Hadīth from Simāk [bin Ḥarb] and he said: “From Hārūn the son of the daughter of Umm Hānī’, from Umm Hānī’.” And the narration of Shu’bah is better. This is how it was narrated to us by Maḥmūd bin Ghailān, from Abū Dāwūd, he said: “The trustee for himself”, while others besides Maḥmūd narrated it from Abū Dāwūd that he said: “in charge of himself – or the trustee for himself” with doubt. Similarly it was reported from others, from Shu’bah: “In charge of himself – or the trustee for himself” with doubt (He said: There is disparagement regarding the chain for the Hadīth of Umm Hānī’, while it is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others: When the one performing a voluntary fast breaks his fast, then he is not required to make it up unless it was (a fast) that he was required to make up. This is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Aḥmad, Ishāq and Ash-Shāfi’ī.)