12 – Abu Khaythama related to us; he said: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, proclaimed:

“Whoever fasts Ramadan with faith and in hopeful expectation of reward will have all his past sins forgiven; and whoever spends the Night of Decree in prayer with faith and in hopeful expectation of reward will have all his past sins forgiven.”