Merits of the Month of Ramaḍān

ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Barqī narrated to us, saying that his father narrated to him, from his grandfather—Aḥmad b. Abī ʿAbd Allāh—from his father, from Ibn Faḍḍāl, from Hārūn b. Muslim, from al-Ṣādiq, Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad, from his forefathers عليهم السلام, who have reported that the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله said: “Shaʿbān is my month, and the month of Ramaḍān is the month of Allāh تبارك وتعالى! So whoever fasts a day of my month will have Paradise mandated upon him, and whoever fasts two days of it will be made one of the good friends of the Prophets, the speakers of truth, the martyrs, and the righteous on the Day of Reckoning, and whoever fasts three days of it will be with me in my station on the Day of Reckoning. And whoever fasts the whole month (of Shaʿbān) and connects it with the month of Ramaḍān, then that is repentance for every sin committed, whether it be venial or cardinal, and including, even, for blood shed unlawfully.”