The Merits of Shaʿbān

ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from his father, from Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr, from Ḥafṣ al-Bakhtarī, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام who said: “When it was imperative for the wives of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله to fast, they would postpone their doing so to the month of Shaʿbān out of aversion to preventing the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله from his needs. When it was Shaʿbān, they would fast, and he would fast with them.” The Imam concluded: “The Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله used to say: “Shaʿbān is my month.”