79 - Chapter: Fasting Five Days of the Month

2402 - Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā informed us, saying: Wahb ibn Baqiyyah narrated to us, saying: Khālid informed us, from Khālid — namely al-Ḥadhdhā' — from Abū Qilābah, from Abū al-Malīḥ, who said:

I entered with your father Zayd upon ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and he narrated that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was told of my fasting. So he came in to see me, and I threw down for him a leather cushion of moderate size, stuffed with palm fiber. He sat on the ground, and the cushion lay between me and him. He said: "Is it not enough for you to fast three days of every month?" I said: "O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Five." I said: "O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Seven." I said: "O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Nine." I said: "O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Eleven." I said: "O Messenger of Allah." Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no fasting above the fasting of Dāwūd — half of the age: fasting one day and breaking the fast one day."

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Also recorded by Aḥmad (6874), al-Bukhārī (1977), and Muslim (1159): (186) via multiple chains from Ibn Jurayj, with this chain of transmission.
And consult the preceding narrations before it.

(1) In (R): ṣawm.
(2) Its chain of transmission is sound. Khālid: he is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭaḥḥān al-Wāsiṭī. Khālid al-Ḥadhdhā': he is Ibn Mihrān. Abū Qilābah: he is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Jarmī. Abū al-Malīḥ: he is Ibn Usāmah al-Hudhalī. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (2723).
Also recorded by al-Bukhārī in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1980) and (6277), and in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (1176), and Muslim (1159): (191), and Ibn Ḥibbān (3640) via multiple chains from Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh, with this chain of transmission.
And consult the preceding narrations before it.

Al-Sindī said: His statement: "I threw down for him a leather cushion" — "wisādah" is with kasrah on the wāw: the pillow. "Adam" with two fatḥahs: leather.
"Rabʿah" with a fatḥah then sukūn, or with two fatḥahs: meaning medium-sized, neither large nor small.
"Ḥashwuhā" — al-ḥashw: what is used to stuff bedding and other things with. =