Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists interacted on social media about the ruling on fasting on the Day of Arafa, if it falls on Friday, as is the case in rituals this year.
An audio clip has spread in which its owner forbids fasting on the day of Arafah if it falls on Friday, and his words are not true. Because the prohibition on fasting on Friday is only if he intends to fast on Friday itself, but if it coincides with the day of Arafah, or the day of Ashura, then fasting is prescribed in it.!
The Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa issued its opinion on the matter, saying in a post on its official page on the social networking site, Facebook: “Fasting Friday on its own (the day of Arafat). Usually for the fasting person, such as one who fasts one day and breaks the fast one day, or if it coincides with the day of Arafat or the day of Ashura, or the fasting is to make up for what is required of a Muslim from Ramadan, for example, or if a person fasts a day before Friday or a day after it.. If the day of Arafat comes on a Friday and the Muslim fasts on his own. His fast is valid and there is no sin on him.”
The authentic hadiths on the authority of the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, about the compulsion to single out fasting on Friday, they mean, fasting Friday as a Friday only without any occasion. Fasting is valid, God willing, and God Almighty knows best. #ARAFFA day
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the former director general of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, had sparked controversy among activists on social media, after publishing previous statements in which he “weakened” the hadith of the virtue of fasting on the day of Arafa, which stated: “Fasting the day I hope that God will expiate for the year before it and the year after it.”
There is nothing wrong with singling out Friday for fasting if it coincides with Arafat, for the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, forbade fasting on its own for the voluntary. He does not have to fast a day before it unless he wants to get out of the dispute and take precautions for himself. #Hajj
This came in a tweet by Al-Ghamdi on his Twitter page, where he republished a previous report published by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Naba in 2013, quoting an article by him in the Saudi newspaper, Okaz, in which he stated: “Al-Ghamdi justified his article by reviewing some hadiths that refer to what he went to: Muslim and others came out on the authority of my father.” Qatada, on the authority of the Messenger of God, said: “Fasting on the day of Arafah. I hope that God will expiate the year before it and the year after it.” And it was narrated by a number of companions in ways that none of them is authentic. (Chapter of Fasting on the Day of Arafat) Ibn Hajar said: What is the ruling on it, as if the hadiths regarding the encouragement of fasting were not proven.. Al-Ayni asserted in the Umdah that the hadiths that encourage fasting on the Day of Arafat were not proven by Al-Bukhari.
And he continued, according to the report: “Ibn Jarir said in Tahdheeb al-Athar: ‘It was proven that a group of the predecessors hated fasting that day for everyone, in every place and every part of the earth, and some of them denied the news that was narrated on the authority of Abu Qatada on the authority of the Messenger of God about the virtue of fasting.” There are many differences in the hadith. In some of them, the words of the Prophet were directly transmitted, in some of them that Omar asked the Prophet, and in some of them that a man asked the Prophet, and in some of them that Abu Qatada said: I asked the Prophet.. and the hadith does not rise to a basis of goodness, let alone authenticity. In his saying: (He forgave him a year before him, and a year after him) is a denial of the commissioner’s daring to commit sins in the future, and the forgiveness of past sins has not been proven except for the Messenger of God and the people of Badr. It is an obligatory month in which the Prophet said: (Whoever fasts Ramadan out of faith and in the hope of reward, his previous sins will be forgiven) so the grace in it is limited to the forgiveness of what has preceded, and he did not mention in it the forgiveness of what will be received from it.