Chapter 211: About the Desirability of the Voluntary Fast for Six Days of Shawwal and Three Days every Lunar Month

Translation: 27 One of the last ten nights of Ramadhan. Its exact time is not known, but some scholars say that it is most likely on the twenty-seventh night, as it was during that night that the Noble Koran was sent down to the first firmament.

Translation: 687. Narrated Abu-Ayyoob: ' The Prophet said: " He that observes fasting in Ramadhan then he follows it with six days of Shawwal, this is equal to the fasting of the whole life 28. " (At-Termizi)

Translation: Abu-Issa said: " The Hadith of Abu-Ayyoob is Hasan Saheeh and some of the people of knowledge recommended observing the fast on these days in accordance with this Hadith.

Ibn Al-Mobarak said: " It is good, and similar to observing the fast for three days every month. He said that it is related to observing the fast in the month of Ramadhan. " Ibn Al-Mobarak chose that they should be observed from the first day of the month of Shawwal. He also said that if one observed those six days separately, it is permissible.

28 The scholars say that it is permissible to observe fasting in that month either consecutively or separately.

Translation: 688. Narrated Abu-Huraira: " The Prophet took my covenant on three thing; " Not to sleep except after having performed Al Witr 29, to observe fasting three days of every month30, and to perform the (voluntary) mid morning prayer. ' (At-Termizi)

Translation: 689. Narrated Musa ibn Talha: ' I heard Abu-Zarr saying: " The Messenger of Allah said: ' O Abu-Zarr! If you observed the fast (voluntarily) for three days, let them be the thirteenth, the fourteenth, and the fifteenth. " 1397 (At-Termizi)

Translation: 29 Witr or Watr prayer (the prayer) is the prayer that consists of either one raka'a or three raka'as performed after performing isha (the evening prayer). Its time starts after isha until shortly before dawn. 30 They are the 13th, 14th, and 15th of the lunar month.

Abu-Issa said: " The Hadith of Abu-Zarr is Hasan, and it was narrated in some narrations that the Messenger of Allah said: ' He that observed the fast three days of every month was considered as if he had fasted his whole life. " 753

Translation: 690. Narrated Abu-Zarr ' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: " He that observes fasting for three days of every month, this is fasting for the whole life. " Abu-Zarr said: ' Allah has revealed the verse that says: " He that does a good deed shall have ten times as much to his credit... * " (رَضِيَ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُ : 160)

Translation: 691. Mo'az said: ' I said to A'isha: " Did the Messenger of Allah observe (voluntary) fasting for three days of the month? " She said: " Yes. " I said: " Which days? " She said: " He was not concerned about which days. " (At-Termizi)