Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

Fasting the day before or after Ashura

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Does fasting on the eleventh day along with the tenth of Muharram achieve the differentiation from the Jews?

Answer:
Yes, there is a narration from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): "Fast"
the day before or the day afterيوما قبله أو يوما بعده
Bulugh al-Maram 5:41
, and in another narration
Fast the day before it and the day after itصوموا يوما قبله ويوما بعده
with the conjunction "and," all of which are reported from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/298 — archive.org (13:22)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa