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Intention for Fasting
Hamzah bin ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar narrated that his father said:
“Hafsah, the wife of the Prophet said:
‘There is no fast for the one who does not intend (to fast) before dawn.”‘
[Sunan an-Nasa’i 2336]
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An-Nawawi رحمه الله said:
Our view (Shafi Madhab) is that the fast of Ramadan is not valid without having the intention from the night before. This is the view of Maalik, Ahmad, Ishaaq, Dawood and many of the scholars among the earlier and later generations.
[Al-Majmoo‘ (6/318)]
_ Ibn Taymiyah رحمه الله said: “Anyone who finds out that the next day is Ramadan and wants to fast it has intended to fast it, whether he spoke the intention out loud or not. This is the practice of the majority of Muslims; all of them intend to fast.”_
[Majmoo‘ al-Fataawa (25/215)]
_ Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen رحمه الله said: “The intention cannot be omitted from a conscious action. In other words, any deed that a person does consciously must inevitably be done with the intention. Thus we know that what happens to some people of waswaas, when a person says “I did not form the intention” is no more than an illusion which has no basis in reality. How can it be true that he did not form the intention when he has done it?”_
[Ash-Sharh al-Mumti‘ 6/353-354]
_ Ibn al-Qattaan رحمه الله said: “The scholars are unanimously agreed that if a person intends to fast on every night of the month of Ramadan, and he fasts, then his fast is complete.”_
[Al-Iqnaa‘ fi Masaa’il al-Ijmaa‘ (1/227)]
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