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The white days

الأيام البيض

Fasting three days of every month, the 13th to the 15th, is like fasting the year.

Sahih
When
Every Hijri month, days 13–15

What it holds

Abu Hurayra reports in al-Bukhari that the Prophet ﷺ advised him to fast three days of every month. islamweb's fatwa cites Ibn Hajar that these appear to be the white days, and narrations in Abu Dawud and an-Nasa'i, graded by al-Albani, naming them as the 13th, 14th and 15th of the Hijri month, and saying three days a month are like fasting the year.

Evidence

Sahih

Sahih al-Bukhari 1981

Grades
GraderVerdict
al-BukhariSahih (included by al-Bukhari in his Sahih) (Sahih)
Full narration

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْمَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو التَّيَّاحِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُثْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ أَوْصَانِي خَلِيلِي صلى الله عليه وسلم بِثَلاَثٍ صِيَامِ ثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ، وَرَكْعَتَىِ الضُّحَى، وَأَنْ أُوتِرَ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَنَامَ‏.‏

Narrated Abu Huraira:My friend (the Prophet (ﷺ) ) advised me to observe three things: (1) to fast three days a month; (2) to pray two rak`at of Duha prayer (forenoon prayer); and (3) to pray witr before sleeping

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