Fasting · Something to leave
Don't fast Friday alone
- The practice
- When fasting voluntarily on Friday, also fast Thursday or Saturday
- When
- Planning a voluntary Friday fast
- In daily life
- Planning a voluntary fast on Friday? Pair it with Thursday or Saturday and put both days in your calendar at once, so Friday never ends up on its own.
The source
النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " لاَ يَصُومَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، إِلاَّ يَوْمًا قَبْلَهُ أَوْ بَعْدَهُ ".
“I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "None of you should fast on Friday unless he fasts a day before or after it”Narrated by Abu HurairaSahih al-Bukhari 1985
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.
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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.