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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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(Fasting on Saturday is neither for you nor against you), where do I find its primary source and its takhrij?

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The questioner: Hadith:
Fasting on Saturday is neither for you nor against you صيام يوم السبت لا لك ولا عليك
As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 13:361
, I do not know where its primary source is, I read it in "Sahih al-Jami'".

The Shaykh : And where?

The questioner: It is this one in "Sahih al-Jami'".

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner: But perhaps, I do not know if the details of its takhrij are in the book "Irwaa' al-Ghalil", if you remember now, I mean?

The Shaykh: No, its details are not mentioned.

The questioner: It is associated with an occasion, I want to ask you about this, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man.

The Shaykh: My brother, this hadith was mentioned in "Sahih al-Jami'"; because it has a corroborating narration of our hadith that we are discussing:
Do not fast on Saturdays apart from days when you are obliged to fast لا تصوموا يوم السبت إلا فيما افتُرِضَ عليكم
Sunan Ibn Majah 1726Hasan (Darussalam)
, this discussion was discussed with me by the Shaykh "Ahmad al-Muskin".

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh: And he asked this same question.

The questioner: No, I only want to know if it is authentic or not; I mean the occasion?

The Shaykh: He asked this same question, may Allah forgive you!

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: He is asking about the occasion, so I said: The occasion is not authentic.

The questioner: Yes, and that was the end of it.

The Shaykh: How did it end?

The questioner: No, I mean I took the...

The questioner: Okay; but this text that was mentioned in "Sahih al-Jami'", it was mentioned not because it is authentic in itself, but because the hadith of al-Ma'ruf corroborates it...

The questioner: I mean, to a certain extent, it is a corroborating narration.

The Shaykh: Yes.
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