بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
سيد الشهور شهر رمضان
“The master of all months is the month of Ramadān.”
Collected in Kashf Al-Astār 1/339, and Al-Bayhaqī in Shu’ab Al-Īmān (3/355, 3/314, 3755, 3736) and Ibn ‘Asākir in Tārīkh Dimashq (26/392-393) through the chain of Yazīd ibn ‘Abd al-Malik.
This chain is very weak. Yazīd ibn ‘Abd al-Malik Al-Nawfalī is unanimously considered weak (i.e. by the likes of Imām Ahmad, Abū Zur’ah, Abū Hātim, Al-Bukhārī, Al-Nasā’ī – see checking of Jāmi al-Ahkām al-Siyām 1/86-87)
إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَ رَمَضَانُ، لِأَنَّهُ يَرْمِضُ الذُّنُوبَ
“Ramadān was only named as such because it burns up the sins.”
Collected by ar-Rāfiʿī in “al-Tadwīn” (2/242), and al-Daylamī (2339), and Muhammad ibn Nasr in “Taʿdhīm Qadr al-Salāh” (2/41), and Abū ash-Shaykh in “al-ʿAdhamah” (256).
Declared mawdū (fabricated) by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi’ 2060 and al-Da’īfah 3223 saying:
Ziyād ibn Maymūn – who is ath-Thaqafī al-Fākihī – is a liar, as Yazīd ibn Hārūn said, and similar to this is al-Bukhārī’s statement: “They abandoned him.”
And al-Hārith ibn Muslim is unknown (majhūl).
(from other routes also, collected by) Abū al-Hasan al-Azdī in “Hadīth Mālik” 2/205, (in it is) ʿUmar ibn Mudrik who is a liar, as Ibn Maʿīn said.
And ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbdullāh al-ʿUthmānī is unknown.
أوَّلُ شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ رَحْمَةٌ، وَوَسَطُهُ مَغْفِرَةٌ، وَآخِرُهُ عِلْقٌ مِنَ النار
“The first part of Ramadān is mercy, its middle is forgiveness, and its end is emancipation from the Fire.”
Collected by al-ʿUqaylī in “al-Duʿafā'” (172), Ibn ʿAdī (165/1), al-Khatīb in “al-Muwaddih” (2/77), al-Daylamī (1/1/10-11), and Ibn ʿAsākir (8/506/1).
Declared very weak by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 2135, and munkar (rejected) in al-Da’īfah 1569 saying:
al-ʿUqaylī said:
“It has no authentic basis from the hadīth of al-Zuhrī.”
Ibn ʿAdī said:
“Salām ibn Sulaymān ibn Sawwār, in my opinion, narrates rejected hadīth, and Maslamah is not well-known.”
And al-Dhahabī said likewise.
And regarding Maslamah, Abū Hātim said about him:
“Abandoned in hadīth,” as mentioned in his biography in “al-Mīzān”.
ذَاكِرُ اللَّهِ فِي رَمَضَانَ مَعْفُورٌ لَهُ، وَسَائِلُ اللَّهِ فِيهِ لَا يَخِيبُ
“The one who remembers Allāh in Ramadān is forgiven, and the one who asks Allāh during it will not be disappointed.“
Collected by al-Tabarānī in “al-Awsat” (2/97/1 from “al-Jamʿ bayn al-Muʿjamain”), and al-Asbahānī in “al-Targhīb” (1/182), Ibn Lāl in his “Hadīth” (2/114-115), and Ibn ʿAdī (1/232). See also Majma Zawāid 4853 Dār al-Minhāj print – the verifier said: “And this chain contains two weak narrators and one abandoned narrator.”
Declared fabricated by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 3038 and al-Da’īfah 3621 saying:
‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Qays is abandoned in hadīth. Abū Zurʿah and others declared him a liar, as in “al-Taqrīb.”
Hilāl ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān – who is al-Hanafī – is close to him [in weakness]; for al-ʿUqaylī said in his biography:
“He is rejected in hadīth.” Then he cited three hadīths for him, and said:
“All of these are rejected, with no basis, and are not corroborated.”
رَمَضَانُ بِمَكَّةَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ أَلْفِ رَمَضَانَ بِغَيْرِ مَكَّةَ
“Ramadān in Makkah is better than a thousand Ramadāns elsewhere.“
Collected in Jāmi al-Saghīr of al-Suyūtī 4478. Majma’ of al-Haythamī 3/145. Al-Bazzār 102 and others.
Al-Manāwī said: “al-Haythamī said: In (the chain) is ‘Āsim Ibn ‘Umar, who was declared weak by the leaders (in hadīth), such as (Imām) Ahmad and others…” (Fayd al-Qadīr 2/1379)
Declared weak by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 3139 and al-Da’īfah 831 saying:
ʿĀsim ibn ʿUmar al-ʿUmarī is weak. In fact, Ibn Hibbān said (8/881):
“Very rejected in hadīth, he narrates from reliable narrators what does not resemble the hadīth of established narrators.”
رَمَضَانُ بِالمَدِينَةِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ رَمَضَانَ فِيمَا سِوَاهَا مِنَ البُلْدَانِ، وَجُمُعَةٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ جُمُعَةٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهَا مِنَ الْبُلْدَانِ
“Ramadān in Madīnah is better than a thousand Ramadāns in other cities, and a Friday in Madīnah is better than a thousand Fridays in other cities.”
Collected by al-Tabarānī (2/111/1) and Ibn ʿAsākir (2/510/8) and others.
Al-Manāwī said: al-Haythamī said: “In (the chain) is ‘Abdullāh ibn Kathīr, and he is weak.” (Fayd Al-Qadīr 2/1379)
Declared fabricated by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 3138 and false/invalid in al-Da’īfah 831:
al-Dhahabī said in “al-Mīzān,” who cited this hadīth for him and said:
“It is not known who this is. And this (hadīth) is false/invalid, and the chain is obscure…. See al-Da’īfah of Al-Albānī.
فَضْلُ الْجُمُعَةِ في رمضان على سائرِ أَيَّامِهِ ؛ كَفَضْلِ رمضان على سائر الشهور
“The excellence of Friday in Ramadān over other days is like the excellence of Ramadān over other months.”
Collected by al-Asbahānī in “al-Targhīb” (2/215), and al-Diyā’ in “al-Ahādīth wa al-Hikāyāt” (2/147/12) through one route. And the other route collected by al-Daylamī (5/329).
Declared fabricated by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 3962 and Al-Da’īfah 4003 saying:
(First route), Abū Dāwūd al-Dārimī who is Nufayʿ ibn al-Hārith – as in “Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb” – and he is a liar.
(Second route), ʿUmar ibn Mūsā – who is al-Wajīhī; Ibn ʿAdī and others said:
“He fabricates/invents hadīth.”
صَمْتُ الصَّائِمِ تَسْبِيحُ، وَنَوْمُهُ عِبَادَةٌ…
“The silence of the fasting person is glorification [of Allāh], his sleep is worship…”
Collected by Abū Tāhir al-Anbārī in his “Mashyakhah” (1/152), and al-Daylamī (2/253).
Declared weak by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 3493 and very weak in al-Da’īfah 3784 saying:
al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr, and he is abandoned [in hadīth].
Al-Manāwī said: And in it is Shaybān ibn Farrūkh; Abū Hātim said: He held the view of Qadar [predestination], people were compelled to (rely on) him in later times. And [it contains] al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr who is discarded/abandoned. Al-Dhahabī said: Al-Dāraqutnī and others said: (He is) abandoned. And Ibn Hajr said in “al-Fath”: In its chain is al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr, and he is discarded/abandoned. (Fayd al-Qadīr 2/1383)
لَيْسَ فِي الصَّوْمِ رِيَاءٌ
“There is no showing off in fasting.”
Collected by Abū ʿUbayd in “al-Gharīb” (2/57)
Declared weak by Al-Albānī in Da’īf al-Jāmi 4907 and al-Da’īfah 4385 saying:
And this is a chain whose narrators are all reliable, narrators of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]; except that Ibn Shihāb is a younger successor [tābiʿī], so it is mursal or muʿdal [types of disconnected narrations].
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