The ruling on fasting the Day of Ashura alone
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What is your opinion on fasting the tenth day of the month of Muharram alone, with the intention of fasting Ashura?The Shaykh: Do you mean the Friday, or in general?The questioner: Absolute.
The Shaykh: Fasting Ashura has four levels: The first level is that we fast the ninth, the tenth, and the eleventh, and this is the highest of the levels,As narrated by Ahmad in al-Musnad: (Fast a day before it and a day after it, so that you differ from the Jews), and because if a person fasts the three days, he obtains the virtue of fasting three days of the month.
The second level: The ninth and the tenth, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (If I remain until next year, I will fast the ninth), when it was said to him: The Jews used to fast the tenth day, and he loved to differ from the Jews, indeed, to differ from every disbeliever.
And the third level: The tenth with the eleventh.
And the fourth level: The tenth alone,Some of the scholars said: It is permissible,And some of them said: It is disliked,So whoever says: It is permissible; the evidence is the generality of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he was asked about fasting the Day of Ashura, and he said: (I hope that Allah will expiate the year before it), and he did not mention the ninth.
And whoever said: It is disliked,He said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Differ from the Jews, fast a day before it or a day after it),And in another wording: (Fast a day after it and a day before it), and this implies the obligation of adding a day to it for the sake of differing,Or at the very least: The dislike of fasting it alone.
And the opinion that it is disliked to fast it alone is strong, and for this reason, we see that a person should get out of this by fasting the ninth before it or the eleventh.
The Shaykh: Fasting Ashura has four levels: The first level is that we fast the ninth, the tenth, and the eleventh, and this is the highest of the levels,As narrated by Ahmad in al-Musnad: (Fast a day before it and a day after it, so that you differ from the Jews), and because if a person fasts the three days, he obtains the virtue of fasting three days of the month.
The second level: The ninth and the tenth, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (If I remain until next year, I will fast the ninth), when it was said to him: The Jews used to fast the tenth day, and he loved to differ from the Jews, indeed, to differ from every disbeliever.
And the third level: The tenth with the eleventh.
And the fourth level: The tenth alone,Some of the scholars said: It is permissible,And some of them said: It is disliked,So whoever says: It is permissible; the evidence is the generality of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he was asked about fasting the Day of Ashura, and he said: (I hope that Allah will expiate the year before it), and he did not mention the ninth.
And whoever said: It is disliked,He said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Differ from the Jews, fast a day before it or a day after it),And in another wording: (Fast a day after it and a day before it), and this implies the obligation of adding a day to it for the sake of differing,Or at the very least: The dislike of fasting it alone.
And the opinion that it is disliked to fast it alone is strong, and for this reason, we see that a person should get out of this by fasting the ninth before it or the eleventh.