سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) هَلْ صَامَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ آبَائِكَ شَعْبَانَ قَطُّ قَالَ صَامَهُ خَيْرُ آبَائِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) . عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مِثْلَهُ فَأَمَّا الَّذِي جَاءَ فِي صَوْمِ شَعْبَانَ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْهُ فَقَالَ مَا صَامَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ لَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ آبَائِي قَالَ ذَلِكَ لِأَنَّ قَوْماً قَالُوا إِنَّ صِيَامَهُ فَرْضٌ مِثْلُ صِيَامِ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ وُجُوبَهُ مِثْلُ وُجُوبِ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ إِنَّ مَنْ أَفْطَرَ يَوْماً مِنْهُ فَعَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْكَفَّارَةِ مِثْلُ مَا عَلَى مَنْ أَفْطَرَ يَوْماً مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ إِنَّمَا قَوْلُ الْعَالِمِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا صَامَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ لَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ آبَائِي ( عليهم السلام ) أَيْ مَا صَامُوهُ فَرْضاً وَاجِباً تَكْذِيباً لِقَوْلِ مَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ فَرْضٌ وَ إِنَّمَا كَانُوا يَصُومُونَهُ سُنَّةً فِيهَا فَضْلٌ وَ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَنْ لَمْ يَصُمْهُ شَيْءٌ
Translation
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, and Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazaan, altogether from Safwan, from Ibn Muskan, from Al Halby who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Did anyone from your<sup>asws</sup> forefathers<sup>asws</sup> Fast during Shaban at all?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The best of my<sup>asws</sup> forefathers<sup>asws</sup>, Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> Fasted it’. <span style="font-size: small">Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus, from Ibn Muskan, from Al Halby, from Abu Abdullah</span><sup>asws</sup><span style="font-size: small"> –</span> similar to it. So, as for what has come regarding the Fasts of Shaban, he<sup>asws</sup> was asked about it, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> did not Fast it, nor did anyone from my<sup>asws</sup> forefathers<sup>asws</sup>’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That is because a group was saying that Fasting in it is Obligatory like the Fasts of the Month of Ramazan, and its Obligation is like the Obligation of the Month of Ramazan, and that the one who breaks a day from it, so upon him would be the expiation similar to what it would be upon the one who breaks one day from the Month of Ramazan’. And rather, the words of the Scholar<sup>asws</sup>: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> did not Fast it, nor did anyone from my<sup>asws</sup> forefathers<sup>asws</sup>’, yes, he<sup>saww</sup> did not Fast it as an Obligated Obligation, in belying the words of the one who alleged that it is an Obligation. And rather, Fasting it is a Sunnah wherein is virtue, and there is not upon the one who does not Fast it, anything’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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