Some of the questions addressed to BAYTULHUDA The House of Guidance and answered by his Eminence Sheikh Tammam Ahmad may Allah protect him.
1- A question about the days recommended to fast in Shaʼbān: Does anyone know why these days are important for fasting? What is the importance behind them?
The answer: Fasting in a month other than Ramaḏān is a Prophetic Sunnah. Whoever wishes may volunteer. And whoever does not fast, there is no sin in that. It is recommended for whoever desires reward. It has a health benefit for their body.. and this is the reason for fasting in general.. and this is how the narrations came about fasting in the month of Sha`bān. One of them in the Prophetic hadith: “Sha`bān is my month and it is the best of the months after the month of Ramadan; whoever fasts a day during it, I will be his intercessor on the Day of Resurrection…” He (PBUH) was asked: Which fasting is best? He said: “Sha`ban is in veneration of Ramadan..”
And Imam Jaafar Al-S̱ādiq̱ said: “Whoever fasts the first day of Sha`bān, Paradise is guaranteed for them absolutely; and whoever fasts for two days, God will look at them every day and night in this world and will be always looking at them in Paradise... And whoever fasts for three days will visit God on His throne from His Paradise every day… And there is no servant who fasts frequently in Sha`bān except that God will improve their livelihood and guard them from the evil of their enemy...”. God knows best.
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