عن أبي هُرَيرة رضي الله عنه، أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: «قال اللهُ عزَّ وجلَّ: كلُّ عمَلِ ابن آدمَ له، إلَّا الصيامَ؛ فإنه لي، وأنا أَجْزِي به، والصِّيامُ جُنَّةٌ، وإذا كان يومُ صومِ أحدكم، فلا يَرْفُثْ، ولا يَصْخَبْ، فإن سابَّهُ أحدٌ أو قاتَلَهُ، فليقُلْ: إني امرؤٌ صائمٌ، والذي نفْسُ محمدٍ بيده، لَخُلُوفُ فمِ الصائم أطيبُ عند الله مِن ريحِ المِسْك، للصائمِ فَرْحتانِ يَفرَحُهما: إذا أفطَرَ فَرِحَ، وإذا لَقِيَ ربَّهُ فَرِحَ بصومِه»
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. God, Mighty and Exalted, said: ‘All man’s actions are his except fasting: it is Mine and I reward it’. 2. Fasting is a shield. 3. If any of you is fasting, he must neither say what is obscene nor shout. If someone abuses him verbally or quarrels with him, he should say: ‘I am a fasting person’. 4. By Him who holds Muhammad’s soul in His hand, the changing mouth smell of a fasting person is sweeter in God’s view, on the Day of Resurrection, than the smell of musk. 5. A fasting person has two occasions to rejoice: when he ends his fast he rejoices at having completed his fast, and when he meets his Lord, he rejoices at having fasted.
Related by al-Bukhari, 1904; Muslim, 1151.
Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Nufayl belonged to the ‘Adiy branch of the Quraysh. He embraced Islam when he was young. He migrated to Madinah with his father when he was still a child below the age of puberty. At the time of the Battle of Uḥud, he was too young to fight. His first military effort was the Encounter of the Moat, i.e. al-Khandaq. He also participated in the pledge under the tree. Zaynab bint Maẓ‘ūn, who was ‘Uthmān ibn Maẓ‘ūn’s sister, was his mother and the mother of his sister, Ḥafṣah the Mother of Believers. He narrated much useful information from the Prophet, and also from his father‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Abu Bakr, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, Bilāl, Ṣuhayb and other companions of the Prophet. He issued many fatwas and narrated a large number of hadiths. He died in Year 74 AH 694 CE.
