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An oft neglected Sunnah when breaking the fast…

Regarding ‘Ali ibn al-Ja’d [it was said that] for the last sixty years, he has been fasting every other day.

My father would never miss fasting [every] Monday and Thursday, and the three full moon days.

Go and get me [some] water or dried dates to break my fast with, so that you may attain a reward similar to that of mine.

I visited Ibraaheem ibn Haani whilst he was on his deathbed. [Whilst there] he called his son Ismaa’eel and said to him: Has the sun set [yet]?

Indeed whoever prays and fasts, but does not leave off sinning, then it is written that he is a liar.

He was known to fast on Mondays and Thursdays – [and] this was throughout the entire year, unless he was travelling or ill.

Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the Fire.

Is a person who leaves off fasting due to laziness and heedlessness like the one that leaves off prayer in the respect that he is a disbeliever?