´Umar bin Al-Khattab narrated that:` The Messenger of Allah said: "When the night advances and the day retreats, and the sun is hidden, then the fast is to be broken."
Hadith Referenceسنن ترمذي / كتاب الصيام عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم / 698
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:صحيح، صحيح أبي داود (2036) ، الإرواء (916)
1؎: "You have broken your fast" has one meaning: that the time for you to break your fast has arrived. Another meaning is that, according to the Shari‘ah, you have become one who is to break the fast, even if you have not yet eaten or drunk anything, because as soon as the sun sets, the fast has reached its end. In this, the time of fasting has been determined: it is from true dawn (subh sadiq) until sunset.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
1: “One meaning of ‘You have broken your fast’ is that the time for you to break your fast has arrived. And the second meaning is that, according to the Shari‘ah, you have become one who breaks the fast, even if you have not yet eaten or drunk anything, because as soon as the sun sets, the fast comes to its end. In this, the time for fasting has been specified: it is from true dawn (subh sadiq) until sunset.”
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 698
Narrated `Umar bin Al-Khattab: Allah's Apostle said, "When night falls from this side and the day vanishes from this side and the sun sets, then the fasting person should break his fast."
Maulana Dawood Raz
Hadith Commentary: The correspondence between the hadith and the chapter is evident. Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah, who also appears in the chain of narration here, was born in the month of Sha‘ban in 107 AH in Kufa. He was an imam, a scholar, an ascetic, and a pious man. All the hadith scholars placed their trust in him. It is their unanimous statement that if it were not for Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah, the knowledge of Hijaz would have perished. He passed away in Makkah Mukarramah on the first of Rajab in 198 AH and was buried in Hajun. He performed seventy Hajj pilgrimages. Rahimahum Allah ajma‘in (Ameen).
Source: Sahih Bukhari: Commentary by Maulana Dawood Raz, Page: 1954