Category: Abi Dawud

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: How good is the believers meal of dates shortly before dawn.

Addressing (the people) Samurah b. Jundub reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The adhan (call to prayer) of Bilal should not prevent you from taking a meal shortly before dawn, not does the whiteness of horizon (before dawn) in this way (vertically) until it spreads out horizontally.

Narrated ‘Abd Allah b. Mas’ud: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The summons (adhan) of Bilal should not restrain one of you from taking a meal shortly before dawn, for he utters adhan or calls (for prayer) so that the man at prayer may return, and the man asleep may get up. Dawn is not (the whiteness) which indicates thus (in perpendicular) – the narrator Musaddad said: Yahya joined his palms (indicating the spread of whiteness vertically – until it indicates thus – and Yahya spread out two ring-fingers of his (demonstrating the spread of whiteness horizontally)l

Narrated Talq ibn Ali al-Yamami: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Eat and drink; let not the white and ascending light prevent you from (eating and drinking); so eat and drink until the red light spreads horizontally.

Narrated ‘Adi b. Hatim: When the verse “Until the white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread” was revealed, I took a white rope and a black rope, and placed them beneath my pillow ; and then I looked at them, byt they were not clear to me. So I mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He laughed and said: Your pillow is so broad and lengthy ; that is (i.e. means) night and day. The version of the narrator ‘Uthman has: That is the blackness of night and whiteness of day.

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When any of you hears the summons to prayer while he has a vessel in his hand, he should not lay it down till he fulfils his need.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Do not fast one day or two days just before Ramadan, except in the case of a man who has been in the habit of observing the particular fast, for he may fast on that day.

Ibn ‘Umar reported the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying “The month consists of twenty nine days, but do not fast till you sight it (the moon) and do not break your fast till you sight it. If the weather is cloudy, calculate it thirty days. When the twenty-ninth of Sha’ban came, Ibn ‘Umar would send someone (who tried) to sight the moon for him. If it was sighted then well and good, in case it was not sighted and there was no cloud and dust before him (on the horizon) he would not keep fast the next day. If there appeared (on the horizon) before him cloud or dust, he would fast the following day. Ibn ‘Umar would end his fasting alone with the people and did not follow this calculation.”

Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu’minin: She never saw the Prophet (ﷺ) fasting the whole month except Sha’ban which he combined with Ramadan.

Narrated Ayyub : ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz wrote (a letter) to the people of Basrah: It has reached us from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), like the tradition narrated by Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet (ﷺ). This version adds: The best calculation is that when we sight the moon of Sha’ban on such-and-such date, fasting will being on such-and-such dates, Allah willing, except they they sight the moon before that (date).