Al-Kafi 6330

Translation

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Slih, from Muhammad Bin Marwan who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah^asws saying: ‘Rasool-Allah^saww was Fasting such, until it was said, ‘He^saww would not be breaking (not Fasting)’. Then he^saww Fasted one day, and broke one day. Then he^saww Fasted Mondays and Thursdays. Then he^saww transferred from that to the Fasting of three days during the month, the first Thursday at the beginning of the month, and Wednesday in the middle of the month, and Thursday at the end of the month; and he^saww was saying: ‘That is the Fasting of the whole time (whole month)’. And my^asws father^asws was saying: ‘There is no one more hateful to me^asws than a man to whom it is said, ‘Rasool-Allah^saww used to do such and such’, so he is saying, ‘Allah^azwj will not Punish me if I strive hard regarding the Prayer’. It is as if he sees that Rasool-Allah^saww neglected something from the preferential acts being frustrated from it’.

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