Fasting · When the moment comes
Break your fast as soon as the sun sets
- The practice
- Break your fast right at sunset, without delaying it
- When
- At Maghrib on a fasting day
- In daily life
- Have the dates and water on the table a few minutes before Maghrib, so the moment the adhan starts you can break your fast, and pray after.
The source
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ يَزَالُ النَّاسُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا عَجَّلُوا الْفِطْرَ ".
“Allah's Messenger ﷺ said, "The people will remain on the right path as long as they hasten the breaking of the fast”Narrated by Sahl bin Sa`dSahih al-Bukhari 1957
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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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 with datesAt iftar on a fasting dayGive someone their iftarOn a day someone around you is fasting
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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.