The fasting of Dawud (peace be upon him) and that breaking the fast on some days does not detract from it.

The questioner : ... the issue of the fasting of Dawud... has anyone who fasted the fast of Dawud...

The Shaykh : No.

The questioner : So, what is better?

The Shaykh : Exceeding the prohibition means, can you not picture with me a person, regardless of this somewhat embarrassing question from a legal perspective, suppose a person lived for a long time fasting the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him).
But in some months he did not follow the fast of Dawud, or let us say for a week he did not follow it, he fasted one day and broke the fast the next day, does this preclude us from saying that he is fasting the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him)?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : You have spoken well, this is the answer to your question.

The questioner : ... you have grouped them.

The Shaykh : ... three days is a negation, but if he fasts Thursday, he fasts Friday; if he fasts Wednesday, he does not fast Friday because he cannot fast Saturday.

The questioner : If he did not fast Wednesday, he must break the fast.

The Shaykh : This is what I am telling you.

The questioner : He breaks the fast on Friday.

The Shaykh : No, if he fasts, and not Saturday.

The questioner : And the one who fasts ... does not sin?

The Shaykh : Yes, but this means if this fasting continues? ...
Why did I give you the previous example? The lesson is based on the general rule. If one avoids this night related to the days of fasting, then we do not exclude him from having fasted the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him), just as fasting on the days of the festival, for example, does this exclude him from having fasted the fast of Dawud?

The questioner : We know that ... Dawud (peace and blessings be upon him) used to fast one day and break the fast the next day ...?

The Shaykh : The same idea, although it is possible that in the law of Dawud (peace be upon him) there were days on which fasting was prohibited, suppose there were days on which he was forbidden from fasting, is this possible or not? It is possible, and this confirms for us, we who follow Muhammad (peace be upon him), that the issue is not about fasting the fast of Dawud exactly step by step, but rather if we do not fast the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him) exactly step by step, we do not exit the circle of having not fasted the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him).
Therefore, if we choose a fasting that is better than the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him), given that there were no days in his law on which fasting was prohibited. ...

The questioner : If a person fasts Monday and Thursday, is his fasting better or the fast of Dawud?

The Shaykh : I answered the first one ... no, the fast of Dawud, do you have a text that says fasting Monday and Thursday is better?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : So the question is dropped.

The questioner : Perhaps it is dropped?

The Shaykh : Why "perhaps," since you do not have a text that fasting Monday and Thursday is the best fasting, and you have a text to the contrary ... perhaps or certainly.....
Whatever it is, our discussion concludes that it is permissible for us, the followers of Muhammad (peace be upon him), that our fasting, if we fast one day and break the fast the next day, is the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him), and it may be better than the fast of Dawud (peace be upon him).
Why? We said: because it is possible that in the law of Dawud (peace be upon him) there was no prohibition on fasting the four days of the festival, and it is possible that he did not have the Festival of Sacrifice and the Festival of Breaking the Fast, what do you think, and he did not have the prohibition on fasting Friday.
We have these prohibitions, so is the one who combines bringing about the commanded matters and abstaining from the prohibited matters not better than the one who only brings about what was commanded?

The questioner:...
This is it, so when we organize the method of fasting one day and breaking the fast, this is the fast of Dawud, avoiding the prohibitions of fasting days like Friday and Saturday, our fasting is better than following and continuing the fasting of one day of fasting and one day of not fasting.
And if it was a day, what? Meaning, his positive fasting fell on a day other than Friday and was not preceded by Thursday, would this not be the best? This is a hypothetical fasting according to the method of Dawud (peace be upon him) and it does not stop, but the best is to proceed with fasting according to the method of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), in which there is command and there is prohibition, and where he commanded we obeyed, and where he prohibited we abstained.

The questioner : I have ...?

The Shaykh : ... we do not have ... it is possible it is like this and it is possible it is like this, then what does it affect us? As I always say, assume the best of the two possibilities for you, what are the best of the two possibilities?

The questioner : The best of the two possibilities ...

The Shaykh : So we do his action, meaning we fast his fast and break his fast, or did you make a mistake in the answer? If you did not make a mistake, then his answer is correct.

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : I see that you made a mistake in the answer.

The questioner : Is it not said that the prohibition of fasting Friday and Saturday is only for those who singled them out ... you singled out Friday in ... of the best fasting is the fast of Dawud, the prohibition is for those who singled it out without that reason?

The Shaykh : ... how do you not remember the hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari when he entered upon her and she wanted to fast Friday, he said to her: She said: No. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited her.
The Shaykh: If she fasted Thursday and fasted Friday, she did not single it out, correct?

The questioner: Correct.

The Shaykh : Now, your question is related to which scenario.

The questioner : My question is not related to this scenario, my question is related to fasting one day and breaking the fast one day, this came in a text alone ... I did not intend, and the text came regarding the prohibition ... except for the one who fasted the fasting that ... but if he did not single it out ...?

The Shaykh : I will give you an answer after it comes, and it is also said regarding fasting Saturday, meaning the one who fasts the fast of Dawud fasted Thursday and left Friday and fasted Saturday.

The questioner : Or the reverse.

The Shaykh : No, my question is clear, he fasted Thursday, left Friday, fasted Saturday, it is said: like the one who fasted Wednesday and left Thursday and fasted Friday, as I said ... if you completed it.

The questioner : Of course ...

The Shaykh : If you completed it, it would be of course ...

The questioner : Why?

The Shaykh : Because the ruling differs here, the ruling between Friday and Saturday.

The questioner : Meaning if we said ... this text.

The Shaykh : When you agree with me in this detail, I will go back and agree with you in that detail.

The questioner : ... we agree in....

The Shaykh : Why did I say your question ... fearing that it would be mixed up in this, so if you proceed with me in the scenario I presented, I said do not fast Saturday even if it was not intended, then I will go back and tell you you were correct in what you said regarding the one who fasted Wednesday, for example, one day fasting and one day not, and Thursday came between them and he fasted Friday, then this really did not intend to fast Friday ...

The questioner : ...