Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Text and translation
English translation
752. Abū Qatādah narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Fast the Day of ‘Ashūrā”, for indeed I anticipate that Allāh will forgive (the sins of) the year before it.” (Saḥih)
There are narrations on this topic from ‘Alī, Muḥammad bin Saīfī, Salamah bin Al-Akwa’, Hind bin Asmā’, Ibn ‘Abbās, Ar-Rubayyī bint Mu‘awwidh bin ‘Afrā’, Abdur-Raḥmān bin Salamah Al-Khuzā‘ī from his uncle, and ‘Abdullāh bin Az-Zubair – they mentioned that the Prophet ﷺ encouraged fasting the Day of ‘Ashūrā.
Abū 'Eisā said: We do not know of any narration in which he said that fasting the Day of 'Ashūrā' expiates (the sins of) a year, except for the narration of Abū Qatādah, and the Hadīth of Abū Qatādah is followed by Aḥmad and Ishāq.
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Footnotes
1
[1] That is the ninth or tenth of Al-Muḥarram, or, both days, and it is discussed below.
Commentary
1. What is most virtuous is to fast on the 9th, 10th and 11th of Al-Muḥarram.
2. Secondly, to fast on 9th and 10th or 10th and 11th.
3. The last and lowest degree is to fast just on the 10th; and the meaning of its being expiation for the sins has been mentioned under the chapter 'Fasting on the Day of 'Arafah'.
