Fasting · When the moment comes
Have suhur close to Fajr
- The practice
- Eat suhur late in the night, close to the start of Fajr
- When
- Before Fajr on a fasting day
- In daily life
- Set your suhur alarm for about half an hour before imsak instead of eating at midnight: a light meal, then a little time for du'a or Qur'an before the adhan.
The source
تَسَحَّرْنَا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ. قُلْتُ كَمْ كَانَ بَيْنَ الأَذَانِ وَالسَّحُورِ قَالَ قَدْرُ خَمْسِينَ آيَةً.
“Zaid bin Thabit said, "We took the Suhur with the Prophet ﷺ . Then he stood for the prayer." I asked, "What was the interval between the Suhur and the Adhan?" He replied, "The interval was sufficient to recite fifty verses of the Qur'an”Narrated by AnasSahih al-Bukhari 1921
The full hadith, with its chain and grading →Arabic: ara-bukhari · Translation: Muhsin Khan (eng-bukhari), from the eng-bukhari edition of hadith-api (public domain), sunnah.com numbering.
Part of: Perfect Your Ramadan
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Get early accessSources: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and narrations of Jami at-Tirmidhi graded sahih or hasan sahih by al-Albani.