Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

Singling out the month of Rajab for worship

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
And of the things.

Answer:
It is not established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he singled out the month of Rajab for any specific acts of worship, neither by standing in prayer at night, nor by fasting, nor by performing 'Umrah. This is not established from him (peace and blessings be upon him). Rather, the month of Rajab is like any other month. Whoever has a habit of fasting in other months fasts in it just as he fasts in the others, such as on Mondays and Thursdays, or three days of every month.
Whoever has a habit of standing in prayer at night throughout the year, the month of Rajab is like any other month; he stands in prayer in it just as he does in the other months. However, singling out the month of Rajab for acts of worship that he did not do in other months is a bid'ah (religious innovation). The month of Rajab is no different from the other months.
And among the greatest bid'ah (religious innovations) in the month of Rajab is singling out the night of the twenty-seventh for the celebration they call the celebration of the Isra and Mi'raj. They claim that the night of the twenty-seventh of Rajab is the night of the Isra and Mi'raj. They hold a celebration for this, which is a bid'ah (religious innovation)
for which Allah has sent down no authorityمَّا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍ
[Yusuf 12:40]
, and it is not established that the Isra and Mi'raj took place on the night of the twenty-seventh of Rajab; this is not established. Even if it were established, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not hold this celebration, nor did he single out the night of the twenty-seventh for anything. This is a bid'ah (religious innovation). And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.من عمل عملا ليس عليه أمرنا فهو رد
Sahih Muslim 1718b
Likewise, the slaughtering in Rajab, which they call al-'Atirah and al-'Aqirah, is among the matters of the jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic age of ignorance). In the jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic age of ignorance), they used to slaughter in the month of Rajab and call it al-'Aqirah. This is a bid'ah (religious innovation) and is from the practices of the jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic age of ignorance). The fact is that the month of Rajab is not singled out for anything in any of its days or nights; rather, one does in it what one does in the other months. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 53 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|كتاب الصداق|فصل في حكم النكاح بغير صداق|صالح الفوزان|الفقه — youtube.com (54:55)

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

Flag this fatwa