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Fast of Sayyiduna Dawud

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Answered by Shaykh Amjad Rasheed

What is the fast of our master Dawud? Which is the best day to start this fast?

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

The fast of our master Dawud is to fasting every other day. This is the best of fasts, as is confirmed in the authentic hadith, related by Bukhari and Muslim.

If one happens to begin this fast on a day that is offensive (makruh) to single out for fasting, such as Friday, then it is sunna to fast on that day only for the one who is performing the fast of our master Dawud. This is not offensive in and of itself according the Ibn Qasim, in Hashiya al-Tuhfa (459/3).

There is no specific day that is preferred to begin the fast of Dawud; any day that one chooses to begin his fast and remain constant on it will obtain the reward.

Amjad Rasheed

(Translated by Shazia Ahmad)

السؤال: ما هو صوم سيدنا داود ، وما هو اليوم المفضل أن أبدأ فيه هذا الصوم ؟ الجواب : صوم سيدنا داود عليه الصلاة والسلام هو أن تصوم يوماً وتفطر يوماً ، وهو أفضل الصوم كما ثبت في الحديث الصحيح الذي رواه البخاري ومسلم ، ولو صادف اليوم الذي يصومه يوماً يكره إفراده في الصوم كيوم الجمعة فالسنة صيامه لمن أراد صيام سيدنا داود ، ولا يكون ذلك مكروها في حقه كما صرح العلامة ابن قاسم في “حاشية التحفة” (3/459) وليس هناك يوم معين يفضل فيه ابتداء صوم سيدنا داود ، فأي يوم ابتدأ فيه واستمر على ذلك حصَّل ثوابه



 

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