The Merits of Shaʿbān

Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Bandar al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us, saying that Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Ḥimārī—whose real name was Jaʿfar b. Bandar al-Shāfiʿī—narrated to him among others, saying that Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ziyād al-Rāzī narrated to him among others in Mecca, saying that ʿAlī b. al-Azhar al-Ahwāzī narrated to him among others, saying that Faḍl b. ʿAyyāḍ narrated to him among others, from Layth, from Nāfiʿ, from ʿUmar b. Ḥamar, that: The Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله used to connect his fasting in Shaʿbān to that in the month of Ramaḍān.