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1622. Abū Al-Aswad narrated from 'Urwah [bin Az-Zubair], and Sulaimān bin Yasār, that they reported to him from Abū Hurairah that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever fasts a day in the cause of Allāh, Allāh shall distance him from the Fire by seventy autumns." One of them said "seventy" and
the other said “forty.” (Hasan)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is a Gharīb Hadīth from this route. Abū Al-Aswad’s name is Muhammad bin ‘Abdur-Rahmān bin Nawfal Al-Asādī Al-Madānī.
There are narrations on this topic from Abū Sa‘eed, Anas, ‘Uqbah bin ‘Āmir, and Abū Umāmah.
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Commentary
If the man out in the field for the sake of Allāh is so lion-hearted and of such a resolute mind that his day-long fasting does not deter him from performing any of the tasks connected with Jihād, then on the basis of his sincerity of intention and deed exemplified by his dual action of fasting for the sake of Allāh, and giving a distinguished performance in the field, he shall be kept at a distance of seventy or forty years from Hellfire. In some other Aḥādīth the distance has been mentioned as one hundred years.
These variations in the distance are due to the qualitative difference in sincerity and the nature of pains and hardship sustained by the persons concerned in the process.
