The claim that fasting the six days is an innovation is a false statement
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Question: What is your opinion, Your Eminence, of the one who says: that fasting the six days of Shawwal is a religious innovation, and that this is the opinion of Imam Malik? If he is challenged with the hadith of Abu Ayyub: Sahih Muslim 1164a He said: There is a man in its chain who has been criticized?
Answer: This statement is false, and the hadith of Abu Ayyub is valid, and it has corroborating narrations that strengthen it and indicate its meaning.
And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.
He who observed the fast of Ramadan and then followed it with six (fasts) of Shawwal. it would be as if he fasted perpetually.
من صام رمضان ثم أتبعه ستًا من شوال كان كصيام الدهرAnswer: This statement is false, and the hadith of Abu Ayyub is valid, and it has corroborating narrations that strengthen it and indicate its meaning.
And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.
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