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5. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from Sama‘ah, who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘Had any of your ancestors fasted during the month of Sha‘ban?’ He replied, ‘The best of my ancestors was the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, who fasted in it.’”
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6. Abu Ali al-Ash’ariy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar and Muhammad ibn Isma‘il from al-Fadl ibn Shadhan all from Safwan from ibn Muskan from al-Halabiy who has said the following: “Once, I asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘Had any of your ancestors ever fasted during the month of Sha‘ban?’ He (the Imam) replied, ‘The best of my ancestors, the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, fasted in it.’” Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa ibn ‘Ubayd from Yunus from ibn Muskan from al-Halabiy from abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), a similar Hadith. There are narrations about fasting in the month of al-Sha‘ban. He (the Imam) (a.s.), was asked about it and he (the Imam) said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, did not fast (during the month of Sha‘ban) neither did any of my ancestors.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is because certain people said that fasting in the month of al-Sha‘ban is obligatory like fasting in the month of Ramadan. If one destroys one day of fasting of month of al-Sha‘ban, the expiation for it is like the expiation for destroying one day of fasting of the month of Ramadan. The words of the scholar (a.s.), ‘The Messenger of Allah did not fast neither did any of my ancestors’ means they did not fast it as an obligatory fast. It was to refute what certain people thought it to be. Their fast was only as Sunnah in which there is virtue but it is not harmful to one who does not fast.
[1]هذا كلام المصنّف- رحمه اللّه- و توجيهه حسن و القوم الذين ذكرهم أبو الخطاب و أصحابه على ما ذكره الشيخ- رحمه اللّه- في التهذيب. و يمكن أن يكون محمولة على التقية أيضا لان أكثر العامّة لا يعدون صوم جميع شعبان من السنن و ان كانوا رووا اخبارا كثيرة في فضله و رووا عن عائشة انه صلّى اللّه عليه و آله كان يصوم كله و أولوه بتأويلات و سؤال السائل في الخبرين السابقين يومى إليه.( آت)ص 91
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7. Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ali ibn al-Hassan from Ahmad ibn Sabih from ‘Anbasah al-‘Abid in a Mawquf manner who has said the following: “He (the Imam) ‘Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘The Messenger of Allah left this world practicing the fast of month of al-Sha‘ban and three days of every month, the first Thursday, the middle Wednesday and the last Thursday of the month. Abu Ja‘far, and abu ‘Abd Allah, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, would also do so.
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1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father all from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Salmah Sahib al-Sabiriy from abu al-Sabbah al-Kinaniy who said: I heard Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) say, "Fasting during the month of Sha‘ban and the month of Ramadan in a continuous manner is returning to Allah. It, by Allah, is repenting.”
[١]هذا كلام المصنّف- رحمه اللّه- و توجيهه حسن و القوم الذين ذكرهم أبو الخطاب و أصحابه على ما ذكره الشيخ- رحمه اللّه- في التهذيب. و يمكن أن يكون محمولة على التقية أيضا لان أكثر العامّة لا يعدون صوم جميع شعبان من السنن و ان كانوا رووا اخبارا كثيرة في فضله و رووا عن عائشة انه صلّى اللّه عليه و آله كان يصوم كله و أولوه بتأويلات و سؤال السائل في الخبرين السابقين يومى إليه.( آت)