6 Things You Need to Put in Ramadān 🌙

1) Qur'ān
[Recite (most important), memorize, read translation/tafsīr, listen]

2) Pray the Sunnah of Salāh & do Dhikr

3) Make lots of Du'ā

4) Uphold and fix family ties

5) Tarawīh

6) Da'wah


6 Things You Get Out of Ramadān 🌙

1) Forgiveness of Allāh

2) Your neck will be freed from Hell

3) Your Du'ā is accepted

4) A mountain of reward on your balance on Judgment Day

5) Laylat al-Qadr

6) Allāh's blessing upon you & He is happy with you


— Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril

Sufficing with the testimony of one person in seeing the new moon: There is nothing authentic concerning it

❌ 11. “The people looked for the new moon, so I informed the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ that I had sighted it. So, he fasted and commanded the people to fast.”


❌ 12. “A Bedouin man came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and said: ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I have seen the new moon tonight.’ He said: ‘Do you bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allāh and that Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allāh?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘O Bilal, announce to the people that they should fast tomorrow.’”


"And what is correct is that it is not accepted except by the sighting of two just people. And this is what is confirmed from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم."

(See: https://archive.org/details/AnAbridgmentOfTheMostFamousAndImportantWeakAhadithRelatedToFasting)

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Opinion of Shaykh al-Muhaddith Sulayman al 'Alwān

Shaykh al 'Alwān, however is of the opinion that it is enough if one just man sees the new moon, and what is looked at is his truthfulness and justness. This is based on the hadith of Ibn 'Umar which was narrated by Abū Dawūd. When he witnessed the moon, he reported the news to Prophet ﷺ and Prophet ﷺ commanded others to fast. Shaykh 'Alwān considers the chain of this narration to be strong. He also mentions that there are a group of scholars who say that two witnesses are needed instead of one, and that they take as dalīl the hadith of 'Abur-Rahmān ibn Zayd ibn Khattāb which says: "So if two witnesses witness, fast and break the fast." In its chain is al-Hajjāj ibn Artā who is weak (Daīf), and every other chain of this Hadīth without the mention of al-Hajjāj is wrong and weak. Indeed there is no doubt that two witnesses are needed to end every month and to begin the rest. The only exception for this is Ramaḍān for which only one witness is enough. For the rest of the months, however, without a doubt two witnesses are needed.

See: 50 benefits from the Fiqh of Fasting by Shaykh Al-Muhaddith Sulaymān al-'Alwān (compiled by Dr. 'Abdullah ibn Khamūdul Farīh)

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Our Note:

We have mentioned the opinion of two scholars of Hadīth regarding the strength of narration in Abū Dawūd and their respective opinions on whether one or two witnesses suffice for the sighting of the moon for Ramadān.

Shaykh Abū Alī does not consider it to be Sahīh (rather he says it is Munkar) and that two witnesses are needed, while Shaykh al 'Alwān says the chain is strong and Ramadān moon sighting is the exception to the rule that two witnesses are needed (one is enough for Ramadān). This is absolutely fine for scholars to have some differences of opinion [we stated both to clarify]

Ahamdulillahi (Added by KnowYourRabb)

The fast is the day the people fast, the breaking of the fast is the day the people break their fast, and the sacrifice is the day the people sacrifice: There is nothing authentic concerning it

❌ 13. “The fast is the day the people fast, the breaking of the fast is the day the people break their fast, and the sacrifice is the day the people sacrifice.” (Tirmidhī) & ‘The breaking of the fast is the day the people break their fast, and the sacrifice is the day the people sacrifice.' (Ibn Mājah)

(See: https://archive.org/details/AnAbridgmentOfTheMostFamousAndImportantWeakAhadithRelatedToFasting)

◽️Benefit:

Fasting in Ramaḍān was made obligatory in the second year after Hijrah and so Rasūlullah ﷺ witnessed Ramaḍān 9 times in his lifetime.

#KnowYourProphet
#KnowHisSunnah

'Umar Ibn Khattab's instructions for the first of Ramadan

It is reported that on the first night of Ramaḍān, ‘Umar – رضي الله عنه– would pray Maghrib, then say (to the people):


Sit down. Then he would give a small address:


Verily the fasting of this month has been made a duty upon you, and standing in night prayer has not been made a duty upon you, but those amongst you who can stand in prayer should do so, for it is from the extra good deeds about which الله told us: so whoever cannot stand in prayer, let him sleep on his bed.


And beware of saying: I will fast if so and so fasts and I will stand in night prayer if so and so stands in prayer. Whoever fasts or stands in night prayer, he must make this for الله. And you should know that you are in prayer as long as you are waiting for a prayer.


Minimize any vain or false speech in the houses of الله (mosques; he said this two or three times).


Let none of you fast a few days before the month (in order to avoid missing the beginning of the month; he said this three times).


And do not fast until you see [the crescent of the new month] unless it is overcast. If it is overcast, count [the previous month] as 30 days. Then do not break your fasts until you see the night upon the mountain (i.e. you are sure the sun has set).


‘Abd Al-Razzāq Al-Ṣan’ānī, Al-Muṣannaf article 7748.

Saying Ramadan Mubarak:

Some scholars believe that it is lawful for Muslims to congratulate each other for the entering of Ramadan by saying "Ramadan Mubarak " and the like.
Their evidence for this is the Hadith reported by Ahmad that the Prophet peace be upon him said:

"…. A blessed (Mubarak) month has shadowed you …".

Ibn Rajab said that this Hadith is an evidence for the lawfulness of congratulating one another for the coming of Ramadan'.

https:www.islamweb.net/amp/en/fatwa/83606/
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“Giving a greeting for the start of Ramadan is (not) Bidah! The Prophet [ﷺ] greeted! Ibn Rajab, Alsuyooty, Ahmad, Shafeey and others permitted it.”

— Shaykh Ahmad Jibril

"Al-Muhaddith ‘Abdullâh as-Sa’d mentioned there is nothing authentic to say we congratulate the entrance of Ramadân, not by the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and not by his companions. But he said there is goodness in supplicating for each other, like asking Allâh to aid us in our fasting and night prayers, to make us from those whose deeds are accepted, to give victory to the muslims, and similar things" —Via Ahlus-Sunnah

#greeting