Giving · When the moment comes
Give someone their iftar
- The practice
- Provide what someone fasting will break their fast with: a meal, a few dates, or a drink.
- When
- On a day someone around you is fasting
- In daily life
- Leave a box of dates on a fasting colleague's desk, invite a neighbour to your table, or send a plate to the student who lives alone. It doesn't have to be a feast; a drink and a few dates are enough.
The source
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ فَطَّرَ صَائِمًا كَانَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لاَ يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الصَّائِمِ شَيْئًا " .
“Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani narrated that:The Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever provides the food for a fasting person to break his fast with, then for him is the same reward as his (the fasting person's), without anything being diminished from the reward of the fasting person”Narrated by Zaid bin Khalid Al-JuhaniJami at-Tirmidhi 807 (sahih, al-Albani)
The full hadith, with its chain and grading →Arabic: ara-tirmidhi · Translation: translator not named in the edition (eng-tirmidhi), from the eng-tirmidhi edition of hadith-api (public domain), sunnah.com numbering.
Part of: Perfect Your Ramadan
More Sunnahs like this
Eat suhoor before you fastBefore Fajr on a day you will fastHave suhur close to FajrBefore Fajr on a fasting dayLeave false speech while fastingThrough a fasting dayWhen provoked, say 'I am fasting'When someone provokes you on a fasting dayBreak your fast as soon as the sun setsAt Maghrib on a fasting dayBreak your fast with datesAt iftar on a fasting day
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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.