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SECTION ON FASTING
79 chapters
- The obligation of fasting
- The abrogation of the verse: "Fidya (compensation) is required from those who are able"
- The verse of fidya (compensation) being established for the elderly and pregnant women
- The month of Ramadan being twenty-nine days
- What should those who observe the crescent do if they make a mistake in determination?
- What is to be done if the sky is cloudy and the crescent is not seen?
- Fasting before Ramadan
- If the crescent is sighted in one country a night before other countries, what is to be done?
- The chapter on the undesirability (karāha) of fasting on the day of doubt (yawm al-shakk)
- The case of one who joins Shaʿbān to Ramadan
- The undesirability (karāha) of joining Shaʿbān to Ramadan
- The testimony of two men regarding sighting the crescent of Shawwāl
- The testimony of a single person regarding sighting the crescent of Ramadan
- The importance of the pre-dawn meal (suḥūr)
- Those who call suḥūr 'breakfast'
- The time of suḥūr
- What should a person do who hears the adhān (call to prayer) while holding a vessel in his hand?
- The chapter on the time of ifṭār (breaking the fast) for the fasting person
- The recommendation (istiḥbāb) of hastening to break the fast at ifṭār
- With what should the fast be broken?
- The words to be said when breaking the fast
- Breaking the fast before sunset
- The fast of wisāl (continuous fasting without breaking)
- The fasting person engaging in backbiting (ghībah)
- The fasting person using the miswāk (tooth-stick)
- The fasting person pouring water over himself due to thirst and exaggerating in drawing water into the nose
- The fasting person having blood cupped (ḥijāma)
- Permission regarding blood cupping for the fasting person
- A fasting person experiencing a wet dream during the day in Ramadan
- The fasting person applying kohl before sleep
- The fasting person vomiting deliberately
- The fasting person kissing his wife
- The fasting person swallowing his saliva
- Kissing one's wife being disliked (makrūh) for a young fasting person
- The case of a person who wakes up in a state of major ritual impurity (junub) during Ramadan
- A fasting person in Ramadan...