Can You Fast During Eid and Tashreeq?
Fasting During Eid and Ayyam al-Tashreeq: Islamic Rulings from Al-Wajiz
Summary
This lecture discusses the Islamic ruling on fasting during specific days of the Islamic calendar, drawing from Al-Wajiz's book on fasting. The instructor explains that Eid days are prohibited for fasting, and then focuses extensively on Ayyam al-Tashreeq (the 11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah), which are also prohibited for fasting except in specific circumstances related to Hajj. The lecture includes historical narrations from companions like Amr ibn al-As and quotes from Aisha and Ibn Umar, explaining that these days are designated for eating, drinking, and remembrance of Allah rather than fasting.
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Continuing in Al-Wajiz in the book of fasting we are in the book of fasting in the chapter regarding the days in which one is prohibited from fasting. Yesterday we mentioned the two days of Eid. So, two days of Eid you know, often times Eid al-Adha a lot of people view it as as being 3 days of Eid or 5 days of Eid. It is 1 day. Eid is technically 1 day. It is on the 10th and it is on the 1st. The 1st of Shawwal, the 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah. However, there are other things that happen on the major Eid which is which is at the end of the year in the 12th month after Hijrah. And part of that is Ayyam al-Tashreeq. Ayyam al-Tashreeq. Hathihil Ayyam hiya.
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Al-Tashreeq min shuruq al-shams. Sabihatah. Li annal insan fil ghalib al-nas al-hujjaj yakhrujun inda shuruq al-shams ba'dal fajri li ramyil jamarat. Fa summiyat Ayyam al-Tashreeq. The next time is the time or the days of al-Tashreeq. Al-Tashreeq is taken from al-shuruq which is the break of dawn. Right when not the break of dawn, but the the the rising of the sun and the the the when the sun is most intense as it rises after sunrise. And the reason that these days are referred to that referred to by that phenomenon is that usually that is the time when the people that are in Hajj will go to throw their jamarat. They would make Fajr in Mina, and then they would go to al-jamarat to throw their jamarat. And so, this would happen once the sun has risen a bit. So, the these days are referred to as the days of Tashreeq. And those days are the 11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah. So, we have one day, which is the Sunnah to fast from Dhul-Hijjah. The next day, which is haram to fast. And then the following 3 days, which are haram to fast, or prohibited to fast according to the majority of the scholarship of Islam. So, the ninth is the Sunnah to fast, the 10th is haram to fast, the 11th, 12th, and 13th of one is prohibited from fasting as well.
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Mentions one of the Tabi'in mentions that he went with Abdullah ibn Amr to his father's house. So, Abu Murrah was a friend with Abdullah ibn Amr. And Abdullah ibn Amr, his father, Amr ibn al-As, a companion, as a matter of fact, he's not just any companion. He is single-handedly responsible for the conquest of the West in his time, in the time of Omar ibn al-Khattab. And so, he went with Abdullah to his father's house. And this was presumably during the days of al-Tashreeq, 11th, 12th, or 13th, one of those days. And so, Amr had food brought out for them to eat. And Abu Murrah said, "I'm fasting." And so, he said, "Eat because these are days in which the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam would consistently command us to not fast during these days. He would command us to go, you know, to to particularly in these days eat and prohibit us from fasting." And Imam Malik rahimahullah narrates this narration. He says, "And these days are the days of al-Tashreeq that he was speaking about.".
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He said, "And on the authority of Aisha and ibn Omar, both who narrate that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had not allowed anyone make anyone fast during the days of al-Tashreeq except for someone who did not have anything to slaughter in Hajj, meaning someone who has to fast 3 days in Hajj and 7 days after Hajj. This is a kaffara or this is a part of Hajj. It is very specific to the people in Hajj only.
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So, Allah mentions this specifically in Surat al-Baqarah in a verse regarding Hajj that if a person does not have a hady or an offering to make on the day of the offerings, the day of slaughtering, the day of the 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah, then specifically that person is to fast 3 days in Hajj and 7 after he has returned home. 3 days in Hajj meaning 11th, 12th, and 13th. This is what Aisha and Ibn Umar understood the verse to mean. And so, a person may fast only in this instance. We understand from this that outside of this instance, it is not permissible to fast. And in another narration that the author didn't mention that the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said regarding the days of at-tashreeq, "Hādhihi ayyāmu akl in wa These are days of eating and drinking and remembrance of Allah. Meaning the 11th, 12th, and 13th. So, it is not permissible for a person to fast during these days of the Tashriq outside of certain very specific circumstances. If a person were to fast on these days the a a large portion of the scholarship of Islam view that fast to be not only impermissible, but invalid.
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