Is the following narration “Rajab is Allah’s month, Shaʿbān is my month, and Ramaḍān is my nation’s month” authentic as it is commonly circulated?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Answer:
Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241/855) categorised this narration as munkar (unknown)[1] and subsequently ḥadīth experts have regarded this narration as fabricated.[2]
Allah knows best
Yusuf Shabbir
3 Rajab 1437 / 11 April 2016
Footnotes
[1] Shuʿab al-Īmān (3532).
[2] Al-Mawḍūʿāt (p. 72); al-Manār al-Munīf (p.95); al-Laʾālī al-Maṣnūʿah (2: 47, 2: 96); Tanzīh al-Sharīʿah (2: 90, 2: 151); Tadhkirah al-Mawḍūʿāt (p. 116); al-Āthār al-Marfūʿah (p. 62); Mawāhib al-Jalīl (2: 409). Also see Fayḍ al-Qadīr (4: 18); al-Firdaws (2: 275); Tārīkh Dimashq (72: 155).