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When there comes the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained,

Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: When it is the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained.

” When (the month of) Ramadan begins.”

Do not fast till you see the new moon, and do not break fast till you see it; but if the weather is cloudy calculate about it.

The month is thus and thus. (He then withdrew his thumb at the third time). He then said: Fast when you see it, and break your fast when you see it, and if the weather is cloudy calculate it (the months of Sha’ban and Shawwal) as thirty days.

‘When the collector of sadaqat (Zakat) comes to you, (you should see) that he goes away pleased with you.

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me some mutton of sadaqa. I sent a piece out of that to ‘A’isha. When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to ‘A’isha, he said: Have you anything with you (to eat)? She said: Nothing, except only that mutton sent to us by Nusaiba (the kunya of Umm ‘Atiyya) which you had sent to her. Whereupon he said: It has reached its proper place.

Whenever the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was presented with food, he asked about it, If he was told that it was a gift, he ate out of that, and if he was told that it was a sadaqa he did not eat out of that.

O Allah, bless them. So when Abu Aufa brought to him Sadaqa he (the Holy Prophet) said: O Allah, bless, the posterity of Abu Aufa.

(O Allah), bless them.”