Chapter on Fasting the Four Days in the Year

And from him, from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from al-Qasim ibn Yahya, from his grandfather al-Hasan ibn Rashid, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I (narrator) said to Imam عليه السلام: “May I be made your ransom, do the Muslims have an Eid other than the two Eids?” – meaning Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha. Imam عليه السلام said: “Yes, O Hasan, one that is greatest of them and the most noble of all.” He (narrator) said: “I asked: ‘And which day is it?’” Imam عليه السلام said: “It is the day on which Commander of the Faithful عليه السلام, peace be upon him, was appointed in it as a standard for the people.” – meaning Day of Ghadeer. So I said: “May I be made your ransom, and what is appropriate for us to do on it?” Imam عليه السلام said: “You fast it, O Hasan, and you increase in it the sending of blessings upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and his family, and you disassociate yourself to Allah سبحانه وتعالى, Mighty and Majestic, from those who wronged them. And indeed the prophets عليه السلام, used to command the successors regarding the day on which the successor is established (Ghadeer), that it be taken as an Eid.” He (narrator) said: “I asked: ‘Then what is there for one who fasts it?’” Imam عليه السلام said: “The fasting (equal) to that of sixty months. And do not leave fasting the twenty-seventh of Rajab, for it is the day on which prophethood came down upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless him and his family, and its reward is like sixty months (of fasting) for you.”