The Best Day to Fast with the Day of ‘Ashura’

Sh. Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn رَحِمَهُ اللهُ said:

“The scholars say, regarding the fasting of the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, that it is either [fasted] on its own, or he fasts with it the 9th, or he fasts with it the 11th. There is a fourth mode: which is to fast the 9th, 10th, and 11th – so it is three days of the month.

It is better for the one who wants to fast two days, that he fasts the 9th and the 10th.”

See: Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá (20: 35, no. 395).

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