Muwatta Imam Malik — Fasting

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar that Abdullah ibn Abbas was asked about people kissing while fasting and he said that he allowed it for old men but disapproved of it for young men

وحدثني عن مالك، عن زيد بن اسلم، عن عطاء بن يسار، ان عبد الله بن عباس، سيل عن القبلة، للصايم فارخص فيها للشيخ وكرهها للشاب

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to forbid kissing and fondling for people who were fasting

وحدثني عن مالك، عن نافع، ان عبد الله بن عمر، كان ينهى عن القبلة، والمباشرة، للصايم

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud from Abdullah ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, left for Makka in Ramadan during the year of the conquest, and fasted until he reached al-Kadid. He then broke the fast, and so everyone else did so as well. What people used to do was act according to whatever the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had done most recently

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن ابن شهاب، عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن عتبة بن مسعود، عن عبد الله بن عباس، ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم خرج الى مكة عام الفتح في رمضان فصام حتى بلغ الكديد ثم افطر فافطر الناس وكانوا ياخذون بالاحدث فالاحدث من امر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman, from Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman from one of the companions of the Messenger of Allah, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered everyone to break the fast on the journey he made in the year of the conquest saying, "Be strong for your enemy," while the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, kept on fasting. Abu Bakr said that the one who related this to him said, "I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, pouring water over his head at al-Arj, either from thirst or from the heat. Then some one said to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, 'Messenger of Allah, a group of people kept on fasting when you did.' Then when the Messenger of Allah was at al-Kadid, he asked for a drinking-bowl and drank, and everyone broke the fast

وحدثني عن مالك، عن سمى، مولى ابي بكر بن عبد الرحمن عن ابي بكر بن عبد الرحمن، عن بعض، اصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم امر الناس في سفره عام الفتح بالفطر وقال " تقووا لعدوكم " . وصام رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم . قال ابو بكر قال الذي حدثني لقد رايت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بالعرج يصب الماء على راسه من العطش او من الحر ثم قيل لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يا رسول الله ان طايفة من الناس قد صاموا حين صمت - قال - فلما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بالكديد دعا بقدح فشرب فافطر الناس

Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd at-Tawil that Anas ibn Malik said, "We once travelled with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in Ramadan, and those who were fasting did not find fault with those who were not, and those who were not fasting did not find fault with those who were

وحدثني عن مالك، عن حميد الطويل، عن انس بن مالك، انه قال سافرنا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في رمضان فلم يعب الصايم على المفطر ولا المفطر على الصايم

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that Hamza ibn Amr al-Aslami once said to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "Messenger of Allah, I am a man who fasts. Can I fast when travelling?" The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If you want you can fast, and if you want you can break the fast

وحدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن هشام بن عروة، عن ابيه، ان حمزة بن عمرو الاسلمي، قال لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يا رسول الله اني رجل اصوم افاصوم في السفر فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " ان شيت فصم وان شيت فافطر

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used not to fast while travelling

وحدثني عن مالك، عن نافع، ان عبد الله بن عمر، كان لا يصوم في السفر

Yahya related to me from Malik that Hisham ibn Urwa said, "My father, Urwa, used to travel in Ramadan, and we would travel with him, and he used to fast while we would break the fast, and he would not tell us to fast

وحدثني عن مالك، عن هشام بن عروة، عن ابيه، انه كان يسافر في رمضان ونسافر معه فيصوم عروة ونفطر نحن فلا يامرنا بالصيام

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab, if he was travelling in Ramadan and knew that he would reach Madina at the begining of the day ,would do so fasting. Yahya said that Malik said, "Someone who is travelling and knows that he will be reaching his people in the first part of the day, and then dawn breaks before he gets there, should be fasting when he gets there." Malik said, "Someone who intends to go away (on a journey) in Ramadan, and then dawn breaks while he is still on his land before he has left, should fast that day." Malik said that a man who returns from a journey in Ramadan and is not fasting may have sexual intercourse with his wife if he wishes, if she is not fasting and she has just become pure after her menses

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، انه بلغه ان عمر بن الخطاب، كان اذا كان في سفر في رمضان فعلم انه داخل المدينة من اول يومه دخل وهو صايم . قال يحيى قال مالك من كان في سفر فعلم انه داخل على اهله من اول يومه وطلع له الفجر قبل ان يدخل دخل وهو صايم . قال مالك واذا اراد ان يخرج في رمضان فطلع له الفجر وهو بارضه قبل ان يخرج فانه يصوم ذلك اليوم . قال مالك في الرجل يقدم من سفره وهو مفطر وامراته مفطرة حين طهرت من حيضها في رمضان ان لزوجها ان يصيبها ان شاء

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Hunayd ibn Abd arRahman ibn Awf from Abu Hurayra that a man broke the fast in Ramadan and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered him to make kaffara by freeing a slave, or fasting two consecutive months, or feeding sixty poor people, and he said, "I can't do it." Someone brought a large basket of dates to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said, "Take this and give it away as sadaqa." He said, "Messenger of Allah, there is no-ne more needy than I am." The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, laughed until his eye-teeth appeared, and then he said, "Eat them

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن ابن شهاب، عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف، عن ابي هريرة، ان رجلا، افطر في رمضان فامره رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان يكفر بعتق رقبة او صيام شهرين متتابعين او اطعام ستين مسكينا . فقال لا اجد . فاتي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بعرق تمر . فقال " خذ هذا فتصدق به " . فقال يا رسول الله ما احد احوج مني . فضحك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حتى بدت انيابه ثم قال " كله

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ata ibn Abdullah al-Khurasani that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, "A bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, beating his breast and tearing out his hair and saying, 'I am destroyed.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Why is that?', and he said, 'I had intercourse with my wife while fasting in Ramadan.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked him, 'Are you able to free a slave?', and the man said, 'No.' Then he asked him, 'Are you able to give away a camel?', and the man replied, 'No.' He said, 'Sit own,' and someone brought a large basket of dates to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said to the man, 'Take this and give it away as sadaqa.' The man said, 'There is no one more needy than me,' and (the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace), said, 'Eat them, and fast one day for the day when you had intercourse.' " Malik said that Ata said that he had asked Said ibn al-Musayyab how many dates there were in that basket, and he said, "Between fifteen and twenty sas

وحدثني عن مالك، عن عطاء بن عبد الله الخراساني، عن سعيد بن المسيب، انه قال جاء اعرابي الى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يضرب نحره وينتف شعره ويقول هلك الابعد . فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " وما ذاك " . فقال اصبت اهلي وانا صايم في رمضان . فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " هل تستطيع ان تعتق رقبة " . فقال لا . فقال " هل تستطيع ان تهدي بدنة " . قال لا . قال " فاجلس " . فاتي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بعرق تمر فقال " خذ هذا فتصدق به " . فقال ما احد احوج مني . فقال " كله وصم يوما مكان ما اصبت " . قال مالك قال عطاء فسالت سعيد بن المسيب كم في ذلك العرق من التمر فقال ما بين خمسة عشر صاعا الى عشرين

Malik said, "I have heard people of knowledge saying that the kaffara specified by the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, for a man who has intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan is not due from someone who, on a day when he is making up the fast of Ramadan, breaks his fast by having intercourse with his wife, or whatever. He only has to make up for that day." Malik said, "This is what I like most out of what I have heard about the matter." Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to be cupped while he was fasting. Nafi said, "He later stopped doing that, and would not be cupped when he was fasting until he had broken the fast

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن نافع، عن عبد الله بن عمر، انه كان يحتجم وهو صايم - قال - ثم ترك ذلك بعد فكان اذا صام لم يحتجم حتى يفطر

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Sad ibn Abi Waqqas and Abdullah ibn Umar used to be cupped while they were fasting

وحدثني عن مالك، عن ابن شهاب، ان سعد بن ابي وقاص، وعبد الله بن عمر، كانا يحتجمان وهما صايمان

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father used to be cupped while he was fasting and he would not then break his fast. Hisham added, "I only ever saw him being cupped when he was fasting." Malik said, "Cupping is only disapproved of for some one who is fasting out of fear that he will become weak and if it were not for that, it would not be disapproved of. I do not think that a man who is cupped in Ramadan and does not break his fast, owes anything, and I do not say that he has to make up for the day on which he was cupped, because cupping is only disapproved of for someone fasting if his fast is endangered. I do not think that someone who is cupped, and is then well enough to keep the fast until evening, owes anything, nor does he have to make up for that day

وحدثني عن مالك، عن هشام بن عروة، عن ابيه، انه كان يحتجم وهو صايم ثم لا يفطر . قال وما رايته احتجم قط الا وهو صايم . قال مالك لا تكره الحجامة للصايم الا خشية من ان يضعف ولولا ذلك لم تكره ولو ان رجلا احتجم في رمضان ثم سلم من ان يفطر لم ار عليه شييا ولم امره بالقضاء لذلك اليوم الذي احتجم فيه لان الحجامة انما تكره للصايم لموضع التغرير بالصيام فمن احتجم وسلم من ان يفطر حتى يمسي فلا ارى عليه شييا وليس عليه قضاء ذلك اليوم

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The day of Ashura was a day the Quraysh used to fast in the jahiliyya, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used also to fast it during the jahiliyya. Then when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to Madina he fasted it and ordered that it be fasted. Then Ramadan was made obligatory, and that became the fard instead of Ashura, but whoever wanted to, fasted it, and whoever did not want to, did not fast it

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن هشام بن عروة، عن ابيه، عن عايشة، زوج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم انها قالت كان يوم عاشوراء يوما تصومه قريش في الجاهلية وكان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يصومه في الجاهلية فلما قدم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم المدينة صامه وامر بصيامه فلما فرض رمضان كان هو الفريضة وترك يوم عاشوراء فمن شاء صامه ومن شاء تركه

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Humayd ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf heard Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan say from the mimbar on the day of Ashura in the year in which he made the hajj, "People of Madina, where are your learned men? I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say about this day, 'This is the day of Ashura, and fasting it has not been prescribed for you. I am fasting it, and whoever of you wants to fast it can do so, and whoever does not want to, does not have to

وحدثني عن مالك، عن ابن شهاب، عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن بن عوف، انه سمع معاوية بن ابي سفيان، يوم عاشوراء عام حج وهو على المنبر يقول يا اهل المدينة اين علماوكم سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول لهذا اليوم " هذا يوم عاشوراء ولم يكتب عليكم صيامه وانا صايم فمن شاء فليصم ومن شاء فليفطر

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab had sent (the following message) to al-Harith ibn Hisham, ''Tomorrow is the day of Ashura, so fast (it) and tell your family to fast (also)

وحدثني عن مالك، انه بلغه ان عمر بن الخطاب، ارسل الى الحارث بن هشام ان غدا، يوم عاشوراء فصم وامر اهلك ان يصوموا

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban from alAraj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade fasting on two days, the day of Fitr and the day of Adha

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن محمد بن يحيى بن حبان، عن الاعرج، عن ابي هريرة، . ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم نهى عن صيام يومين يوم الفطر ويوم الاضحى

Yahya related to me from Malik that he used to hear the people of knowledge say,"There is no harm in fasting continuously as long as one breaks the fast on the days on which the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade fasting, namely, the days of Mina, the day of Adha and the day of Fitr, according to what we have heard." Malik said, "This is what I like most out of what I have heard about the matter

وحدثني عن مالك، انه سمع اهل العلم، يقولون لا باس بصيام الدهر اذا افطر الايام التي نهى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن صيامها وهي ايام منى ويوم الاضحى ويوم الفطر فيما بلغنا . قال وذلك احب ما سمعت الى في ذلك

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade fasting for two days or more without breaking the fast in between. They said, "But Messenger of Allah, you practise wisal." He replied, "I am not the same as you. I am fed and given to drink

حدثني يحيى، عن مالك، عن نافع، عن عبد الله بن عمر، ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم نهى عن الوصال فقالوا يا رسول الله فانك تواصل فقال " اني لست كهييتكم اني اطعم واسقى