SHAYKH
‘ABDUL-‘AZIZ IBN BAZ
The
Prophet ﷺ says: ‘When it reaches the middle of Sha’ban, then do not fast.’
This is an authentic hadith. So the one who did not fast the beginning of the
month, then it is for him not to fast after the middle of the month due to this
authentic hadith. Likewise, what takes precedence is that it is for him not to
fast the end of the month, due to the Prophet’s ﷺ statement: ‘Do not
precede the month of Ramadhan by fasting one or two days, except for a person
who has a habit of observing fast, then he can fast.’
So the one for whom it is a habit, then there
is no harm. If it is his habit – to fast Monday and Thursday – then there is no
harm that he fasts, or if his habit is to fast one day and not the next, then
there is no harm that he fasts. As for a person commencing fasting after the
first half of Sha’ban (has elapsed) due to it being Sha’ban, then this is not
permissible. If he began fasting from the fourteenth, or fifteenth, or
thirteenth of Sha’ban… then there is no harm, as this is (still) the majority
of it; so if he fasts all of it or most of it, then there is no harm. As for
not fasting the first half of Sha’ban and then he starts fasting the rest of
it, then this is what has been prohibited.
Taken from the website of the Shaykh
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