Imām Saʿīd b. Al-Musayyib – Allāh have mercy on him – said: The Sunnah of Al-Fiṭr consists of three things: Walking to the prayer place (muṣallā), eating before leaving [for the prayer] and taking a full bath. Al-Firyābī, Aḥkām Al-ʿEidayn #18. Shaykh Al-Albānī graded its chain of transmission ṣaḥīḥ in Irwāʾ Al-Ghalīl 3:104.
Generosity and Community in Ramadan
It is reported that Ḥammād b. Abī Sulaymān was a wealthy man, he used to provide ifṭār (meal to end the fast) for five hundred people in Ramaḍān, and would give each of them one hundred dirham after ‘Eid.
It is also reported that he used to provide ifṭār for fifty poor people a day in Ramaḍān, and on the eve of ‘Eid he would give each of them clothes to wear. Al-Dhahabī, Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā`, in his biography of Ḥammād b. Abī Sulaymān.
Al-Dhahabī, Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā`, in his biography of Ḥammād b. Abī Sulaymān.
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