1- “The hadith: ‘The difference between our fast and the fast of the People of the Book ….’”
2- Hastening to break the fast is a means of differing from them.
176 3- The prohibition of continuous fasting, in order to differ from the Christians.
177 4- His ﷺ order to add the ninth day to ʿĀshūrāʾ so as to differ from the Jews.
178 5- The hadith reporting that he ﷺ would fast on Saturday and Sunday in opposition to the polytheists; al-Ḥāfiẓ’s remarks on fasting those two days; the author’s retraction after discovering the report’s weakness; and the fact that the hadiths under this heading exceed thirty.

179 – Under pilgrimage:
179 1- His ﷺ contrariness to the polytheists by departing from Muzdalifah before sunrise; its documentation in al-Bukhārī and others; an explanation of a misunderstanding that befell Shaykh al-Islām concerning it; another hadith of the same purport that contains details absent from the first, which al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī—together with the author—declared authentic, along with a discussion of its hidden defect.

180 – Under slaughtering:
180 1- His ﷺ prohibition of slaughtering with a fingernail because it served the Ethiopians as a blade; Ibn Taymiyyah’s clarification that the rationale is imitation, his refutation of those who argued that the reason is its resemblance to strangulation, the concurrence of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī, and al-Ḥāfiẓ’s reply to the objection raised against him.

182 – Under foods:
182 1- The hadith: “Do not leave anything in which a Christian woman has taken part,” the statement that, owing to corroborating chains, it is ḥasan (sound), together with an explanation of its meaning.

183 – Under dress and adornment (eight hadiths):
183 1- The hadith: “These are garments of the unbelievers; do not wear them,” Ibn Taymiyyah’s note that this includes whatever they deem lawful though forbidden or whatever they customarily wear, and several early reports forbidding resemblance to them.