2358 — ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī informed us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: Thābit ibn Qays Abū al-Ghuṣn — an elder from the people of Medina — narrated to us, who said: Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī narrated to me, who said:

Usāmah ibn Zayd narrated to me, who said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, you fast until it is as if you almost never break your fast, and you break your fast until it is as if you almost never fast — except for two days which, if they fall during your fasting, you fast them, and if not, you fast them." He said, "Which two days?" I said, "Monday and Thursday." He said, "Those are two days in which deeds are presented to the Lord of the worlds, and I love for my deeds to be presented while I am fasting."(1)

2359 — Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān informed us, who said: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us, who said: Thābit ibn Qays al-Ghifārī informed me, who said: Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī narrated to me, who said: Abū Hurayrah narrated to me, from Usāmah ibn Zayd, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to fast continuously,(2) and it would be said, "He does not break his fast," and he would break his fast continuously, and it would be said, "He does not fast," until it was said, "He has not fasted." And he would fast Monday and Thursday. He was asked about that, and he said, "Deeds are presented on Monday and Thursday, so I love for my deeds to be presented while I am fasting." He said, "And deeds are presented on the day of ʿArafah, and deeds are presented on the day of the breaking of the fast, and deeds are presented on the day of the sacrifice."(3)

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(1) Its chain is good, like the preceding one. It is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, no. 2679.
It was also narrated — at length, mentioning the following hadith — by Aḥmad (21753) from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, with this chain.
Al-Sindī said: His statement, "And it is a month in which deeds are raised to the Lord of the worlds" — it is asked: what is the meaning of this, given that it is established in the two Ṣaḥīḥs [rather, in Muslim alone (179)] that Allah, exalted, raises to Him the deed of the night before the deed of the day, and the deed of the day before the deed of the night? I say: it admits of two matters; one of them: that the deeds of the servants are presented to Allah, exalted, every day, then the deeds of the week are presented to Him every Monday and Thursday, then the deeds of the year are presented to Him in Shaʿbān, so they are presented presentation after presentation, and for each presentation there is a wisdom which He discloses to whom He wills of His creation, or He keeps it exclusively with Himself, even though nothing of their deeds is hidden from Him, exalted.
The second: that the meaning is that they are presented in the day in detail, then in the week in summary, or the reverse.
(2) In (M): fasting.
(3) Its chain is good, like the preceding one. It is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, no. 2680.