✿ Fasting on Both Saturday and Sunday Together Is Permissible ✿
✍ Written by: Imran Ayyub Lahori
Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها narrated:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to often fast on Saturdays and Sundays, and he would say:
”These two days are the festival days of the polytheists, and I want to oppose them.”
[Ṣaḥīḥ: Nasāʾī al-Kubrā: 2/146, Ḥadīth 2775; Ibn Khuzaymah: 2168; Ibn Ḥibbān: 3616; Aḥmad: 6/323; Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr: 23/238; Ḥākim: 1/436]
Imām al-Ḥākim authenticated this narration, and Imām al-Dhahabī concurred with him.
[Al-Majmaʿ: 3/198]
✔ Additionally, Shaykh Ḥāzim ʿAlī Qāḍī graded it ṣaḥīḥ, and Shaykh Ṣubḥī Ḥallāq declared it ḥasan.
[Al-Taʿlīq ʿalā Subul al-Salām: 2/906; 4/175]
✔ It is permissible and encouraged to fast on Saturday and Sunday together, especially with the intention of opposing non-Muslim traditions and due to the Prophet’s ﷺ practice.
The prohibition found in other narrations relates specifically to fasting only on Saturday in isolation.
But when Saturday is combined with Sunday, the restriction does not apply.
✍ Written by: Imran Ayyub Lahori
❖ Fasting on Saturday and Sunday as a Pair
Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها narrated:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to often fast on Saturdays and Sundays, and he would say:
”These two days are the festival days of the polytheists, and I want to oppose them.”
[Ṣaḥīḥ: Nasāʾī al-Kubrā: 2/146, Ḥadīth 2775; Ibn Khuzaymah: 2168; Ibn Ḥibbān: 3616; Aḥmad: 6/323; Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr: 23/238; Ḥākim: 1/436] Imām al-Ḥākim authenticated this narration, and Imām al-Dhahabī concurred with him. [Al-Majmaʿ: 3/198]✔ Additionally, Shaykh Ḥāzim ʿAlī Qāḍī graded it ṣaḥīḥ, and Shaykh Ṣubḥī Ḥallāq declared it ḥasan.
[Al-Taʿlīq ʿalā Subul al-Salām: 2/906; 4/175]❖ Summary of the Ruling
✔ It is permissible and encouraged to fast on Saturday and Sunday together, especially with the intention of opposing non-Muslim traditions and due to the Prophet’s ﷺ practice.
The prohibition found in other narrations relates specifically to fasting only on Saturday in isolation.But when Saturday is combined with Sunday, the restriction does not apply.
