the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to fast three days of every month?” She replied, “Yes.” I then asked, “Which days of the month did he choose?” She said, “He was not particular about which part of the month he fasted.” Reported by Muslim.

1270 – Abū Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If you are going to fast three days of the month, then fast the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth.” Reported by al-Tirmidhi, who said: a good ḥadīth.

1271 – Qatadah ibn Milḥān (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to command us to fast the white days: the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth. Narrated by Abū Dāwūd.

1272 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never left off fasting the white days, whether he was at home or on a journey. Reported by al-Nasāʾī with a sound chain.

231 – Chapter: The merit of one who provides food for a fasting person to break his fast, the virtue of the fasting person in whose house people eat, and the supplication of the eater for the host

1273 – Zayd ibn Khālid al-Juhanī (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever gives a fasting person something with which to break his fast will have a reward equal to his, without the faster’s reward being diminished in the least.” Reported by al-Tirmidhi, who said: a good and sound ḥadīth.

1274 – Umm ʿUmārah al-Anṣāriyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) related that the Prophet ﷺ entered upon her and she offered him some food. He said, “Eat.” She replied, “I am fasting.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When a fasting person is eaten with, the angels invoke blessings upon him until they finish,” and he sometimes said, “until they have had their fill.” Reported by al-Tirmidhi, who said: a good ḥadīth (1).