VIRTUE OF FASTING FIRST NINE DAYS OF DHUL HAJJ..

VIRTUE OF FASTING FIRST NINE DAYS OF DHUL HAJJ..

It is Sunnah for a Muslim to fast on the first nine days of Dhu’l-Hijjah, because the Prophet (salaho aliyah wasalam) encouraged us to do righteous deeds in the first ten days of Dhu’l-Hijjah, and fasting is one of the best of deeds, which Allah has chosen for Himself. [A hadeeth quds states: “Allaah says: ‘All the deeds of the son of Adam are for him, except fasting, which is for Me and I shall reward for it.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1805]

It was narrated from Hunaydah ibn Khaalid from his wife, that one of the wives of the Prophet (salaho aliyah wasalam) said: The Prophet (salaho aliyah wasalam) used to fast on the first nine days of Dhu’l-Hijjah and the day of ‘Ashoora’, and three days each month, the first Monday of the month and two Thursdays.[Narrated by al-Nasaa’i, 4/205 and by Abu Dawood; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood, 2/462]

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