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I am checking out my local Sunni mosque calendar and they have absolutely no activity on the eve of Ashura or the day of Ashura. The calendar is listing an organizational meeting.
Noshi, that fasting itself is based on a bidah and it's origin, according to Sunni sources, is NOT due to Ashura. But nonetheless, Sister Gypsy, they do commemorate Ashura and they even have majalis. it is, maybe, only the Salafis who don't or else orthodox recognise how great this sacrifise was. I don't think it is right to generalise Salafi beliefs on all of Sunnis; after all, Salafis are themselves a minority even within Sunnism.
BTW, I used to live in a predominately Sunni Muslim country and as far as I know they don't really have a remembrance of Imam Hussayn. Neither do they have any types of mourning for the event of Karbala. The Sunnis celebrate the first of Muharram as the Islamic New Year. And on the 10th of Muharram they celebrate it again with making a special type of porridge in the mosque. This is distributed to the poor.
I have heard of some Sunni Muslims in India mourning. Were they influenced by the local Shia? Is this a local tradition in those places?
Main Stream Muslims fast on this day because the Prophet (saw), the Ahlulbait and the Sahaba did.
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:
"The best fasting after Ramadhan is fasting Allah's month of Muharram." [Reported by Muslim, 1982]
Shia narrations (ignored by the shia) proves that Ahlulbait also fasted on this day.
علي بن الحسن بن فضال عن هارون بن مسلم عن مسعدة بن صدقة عن ابي عبد الله عن أبيه عليهما السلام ان عليا عليه السلام قال: صوموا العاشورا التاسع والعاشر فانه يكفر ذنوب سنة. كتاب تهذيب الاحكام ج4ص299
'Ali bin al-Hassan bin Faddal from Haroun bin Muslim from Masa'adah bin Sadaqah from Imam abu 'Abdullah from his Father that 'Ali (as) said: "Fast on 'Ashoora the ninth and tenth for it removes the sins of a whole year." source: Tahtheeb al-Ahkam 4/299 & Wasael al-Shia 10/457. وعنه عن يعقوب بن يزيد عن ابي همام عن ابي الحسن عليه السلام قال: صام رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يوم عاشورا. كتاب تهذيب الاحكام ج4 ص299-300
Also from him, from Ya'aqoub bin Yazid, from abu Hamam, from Imam abu al-Hassan (as): "The messenger peace be upon him and his household fasted the day of 'Ashoora." source: Tahtheeb al-Ahkam 4/299-300.
We actually have traditions that forbid the fasting on the day of Ashura. Please look for them at the www.tashayyu.org
Here are a few of them
And from him from Muhammad b. `Isa from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Zayd an-Narsi. He said: I heard `Ubayd b. Zurara asking Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام about the fast of the day of `Ashura. So he said: Whoever fasts it his lot from fasting that day is the lot of Ibn Marjana and the family of Ziyad. He said: I said: And what is their lot from that day? He said: The Fire. May Allah keep us from the Fire and from an act that brings us closer to the Fire.
And from him from Muhammad b. Musa from Ya`qub b. Yazid from al-Hasan b. `Ali al-Washsha. He said: Najiyya [Najba – in the masdar] b. al-Harith al-`Attar narrated to me. He said: I asked Abu Ja`far عليه السلام about the fast of the day of `Ashura. So he said: An abandoned fast by the revelation of the month of Ramadan.
They fast on the Day of Ashura.
ReplyDeleteNoshi, that fasting itself is based on a bidah and it's origin, according to Sunni sources, is NOT due to Ashura. But nonetheless, Sister Gypsy, they do commemorate Ashura and they even have majalis. it is, maybe, only the Salafis who don't or else orthodox recognise how great this sacrifise was. I don't think it is right to generalise Salafi beliefs on all of Sunnis; after all, Salafis are themselves a minority even within Sunnism.
ReplyDeleteWhich Sunni sects commemorate Ashura?
ReplyDeleteBTW, I used to live in a predominately Sunni Muslim country and as far as I know they don't really have a remembrance of Imam Hussayn. Neither do they have any types of mourning for the event of Karbala. The Sunnis celebrate the first of Muharram as the Islamic New Year. And on the 10th of Muharram they celebrate it again with making a special type of porridge in the mosque. This is distributed to the poor.
I have heard of some Sunni Muslims in India mourning. Were they influenced by the local Shia? Is this a local tradition in those places?
Salam Alaikum,
ReplyDeleteMain Stream Muslims fast on this day because the Prophet (saw), the Ahlulbait and the Sahaba did.
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:
"The best fasting after Ramadhan is fasting Allah's month of Muharram." [Reported by Muslim, 1982]
Shia narrations (ignored by the shia) proves that Ahlulbait also fasted on this day.
علي بن الحسن بن فضال عن هارون بن مسلم عن مسعدة بن صدقة عن ابي عبد الله عن أبيه عليهما السلام ان عليا عليه السلام قال: صوموا العاشورا التاسع والعاشر فانه يكفر ذنوب سنة. كتاب تهذيب الاحكام ج4ص299
'Ali bin al-Hassan bin Faddal from Haroun bin Muslim from Masa'adah bin Sadaqah from Imam abu 'Abdullah from his Father that 'Ali (as) said: "Fast on 'Ashoora the ninth and tenth for it removes the sins of a whole year."
source: Tahtheeb al-Ahkam 4/299 & Wasael al-Shia 10/457.
وعنه عن يعقوب بن يزيد عن ابي همام عن ابي الحسن عليه السلام قال: صام رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يوم عاشورا. كتاب تهذيب الاحكام ج4 ص299-300
Also from him, from Ya'aqoub bin Yazid, from abu Hamam, from Imam abu al-Hassan (as): "The messenger peace be upon him and his household fasted the day of 'Ashoora."
source: Tahtheeb al-Ahkam 4/299-300.
We actually have traditions that forbid the fasting on the day of Ashura. Please look for them at the www.tashayyu.org
ReplyDeleteHere are a few of them
And from him from Muhammad b. `Isa from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Zayd an-Narsi. He said: I heard `Ubayd b. Zurara asking Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام about the fast of the day of `Ashura. So he said: Whoever fasts it his lot from fasting that day is the lot of Ibn Marjana and the family of Ziyad. He said: I said: And what is their lot from that day? He said: The Fire. May Allah keep us from the Fire and from an act that brings us closer to the Fire.
And from him from Muhammad b. Musa from Ya`qub b. Yazid from al-Hasan b. `Ali al-Washsha. He said: Najiyya [Najba – in the masdar] b. al-Harith al-`Attar narrated to me. He said: I asked Abu Ja`far عليه السلام about the fast of the day of `Ashura. So he said: An abandoned fast by the revelation of the month of Ramadan.