The Merits of Shaʿbān

Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Bandar al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us, saying that Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. Isḥāq al-Harawī narrated to him among others, saying that Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Zahr al-Shahrī narrated to him among others, saying that ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Abī Bakr narrated to him among others, saying that ʿAmrū b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār narrated to him among others, saying that Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to him among others, from Ṣafwān b. Sulaymān, from ʿĀʾisha, who said: “I did not see the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله fasting more often in any month than he would in the month of Shaʿbān.”