The ruling on fasting one or two days before Ramadan out of caution

Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on fasting one or two days before Ramadan due to doubt or caution? Is it disliked or forbidden?

Answer:
First, before answering, the brothers ask many questions, and perhaps the time does not allow for them, so an answer is not given to every question. Perhaps some of the brothers get angry or feel upset and blame the one who reads the questions. The one who reads the questions is not to be blamed because he is limited by time.
And he cannot read all the questions. This is one aspect. The other aspect is that some questions may not be relevant. We do not answer except on the question that is within the topic of the lesson. As for the one who asks a question outside the topic of the lesson, we do not answer it. So be aware of this so that this problem goes away. If the questions were limited to the topic of the lesson, there would be no problem, no anger, and no fitnah. We do not answer except on the questions that are within the topic of the lesson. As for the answer to this question, yes, it is taken from the hadith that it is not permissible to fast the day of doubt. It is not permissible to fast the day of doubt. If it is the thirtieth day of Sha'ban, and the sighting of the crescent moon, we have three cases for the night of the thirtieth of Sha'ban. We have three cases for it. The first case is that the crescent is seen. In this case, fasting is obligatory by consensus. The saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) The second case is that the crescent is not seen and the sky is clear, with no haze or anything preventing the view. The sky is clear. In this case, it is not permissible to fast by consensus. It is not permissible to fast by consensus.
The third case is that the crescent is not seen on the night of the thirtieth of Sha'ban, but there is an obstacle preventing the view, such as clouds or haze. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) resolved this by his saying: "If it is obscured" one day. Praise be to Allah. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) answered this question: if the crescent is not seen due to an obstacle preventing the view, then we are in a matter of ease, praise be to Allah. We do not make things difficult for ourselves. We remain on the default.
So we do not fast. This is the view of the majority of scholars that the day of doubt is not fasted, because of this hadith, which is explicit on the matter. The second group of scholars say that it is obligatory to fast it out of caution. That is, the day of doubt is fasted as if it were from Ramadan, out of caution. This view is the weaker one. This view is the weaker one because it contradicts the evidence.
And 'Ammar ibn Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The one who fasts the day he is in doubt about, or says" So the correct view is that the day of doubt is not fasted. This is the madhhab of Ahmad, as said by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and it is the stronger of the scholars' views. So the day of doubt is not fasted. And if there is a narration or narrations in the madhhab that it is fasted, they are the weaker ones. Yes.

The presenter:
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