The Ruling on Fasting Timetables Distributed in the Month of Ramadan
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Question: The brother / M. S. A. from Riyadh, says in his question: Some companies and institutions distribute fasting timetables for the blessed month of Ramadan, and these timetables are specific to the times of the prayers, but what caught my attention is that they set a time for abstaining from food and drink that precedes the Fajr adhan by a quarter of an hour. Is there a basis for this practice in the Sunnah? Please issue a ruling, and may you be rewarded. Attached to your Excellency is a picture of one of these timetables.
Answer: I do not know of a basis for this specific detail. Rather, what the Book and the Sunnah indicate is that abstaining from food and drink begins with the dawn; for the saying of Allah, the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:187] the verse [al-Baqarah: 187].
And for the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Bulugh al-Maram 2:21 narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah and al-Hakim, and they graded it as authentic, as in Bulugh al-Maram, and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Sahih al-Bukhari 622, 623. The narrator said: And Ibn Umm Maktum was a blind man who did not call out until it was said to him: "The dawn has come, the dawn has come." It is agreed upon that it is authentic. And success is from Allah.
Answer: I do not know of a basis for this specific detail. Rather, what the Book and the Sunnah indicate is that abstaining from food and drink begins with the dawn; for the saying of Allah, the Exalted:
And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]
وَكُلُواْ وَاشْرَبُواْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ...And for the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Dawn is of two types; the dawn in which eating is forbidden (for the fasting person) and prayer is permitted and the dawn in which prayer is forbidden i.e. the morning prayer and eating is permitted.
الفجر فجران، فجر يحرم الطعام وتحل فيه الصلاة، وفجر تحرم فيه الصلاة (أي صلاة الصبح) ويحل فيه الطعامNarrated `Aisha: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Bilal pronounces the Adhan at night, so eat and drink (Suhur) till Ibn Um Maktum pronounces the Adhan."
إن بلالًا يؤذن بليل، فكلوا واشربوا حتى يؤذن ابن أم مكتوم
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