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759. Abū Ayyūb narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Whoever fasts Ramaḍān, then follows it with six from Shawwāl, then that is (equal in reward) to fasting every day." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
There are narrations on this topic from Jābir, Abū Hurairah, and Thawbān.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of Abū Ayyūb is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth. There are those people who consider fasting six (days) of Shawwāl recommended due to this Hadīth.
Ibn Al-Mubārak said it is good to do, just like fasting three days of every month. Ibn Al-Mubārak said that it has been reported in some of the Aḥādīth: "This fast is connected to Ramaḍān." Ibn Al-Mubārak preferred that these six days be at the beginning of the month, and it has been reported that Ibn Al-Mubārak said that if one fasted six separate days of Shawwāl then it is acceptable.
Abū 'Eisā said: (Two other chains from Sa'd bin Sa'eed for this Hadīth) and Sa'd bin Sa'eed is the brother of Yahya bin Sa'eed Al-Anṣārī. Sa'd bin Sa'eed has been criticized by some of the people of Hadīth due to his memory.
(Another chain) that when fasting the six days of Shawwāl was mentioned before Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī, he would say: "By Allāh!
Allāh is more pleased with fasting this month, than the entire year.”
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Commentary
The month of Ramaḍān even though is sometimes of twenty-nine days, yet Allāh, by His Grace and Kindness, declared it equal to the month of thirty days, and in the case of fasting six days of Shawwāl it makes the number thirty-six; and a Kind Rule of Allāh is that the reward of every good deed is ten fold, so according to this rule thirty-six multiplied by ten make three hundred and sixty, and the total days of the lunar year are less than that.
