2, of Al-X/tisal, as having said, "Lid al-Ghadir is the...

2, of Al-X/tisal, as having said, "Lid al-Ghadir is the greatest Eid; it is the 18th of Thul-Hijjah, and it was a Friday." On p. 126, Vol.

2, of Al-Kiiisal, it is stated that Ibn Musa quotes al-Asdi citing al-Husain ibn ‘tlbaydullah al-Ash’ an quoting al-Yaqtii quoting al-Qasim quoting his grandfather quoting al-Mufaddal saying, "I asked Abu Abdullah (as): ‘How many Eids do Muslims have?’ He (as) said, ‘Four.’ I said, ‘I know of two Lids (al-Fitr and al-Adha) and Friday.’ He said to me, ‘The greatest and the most honored of all of them is the 18th of Thul-Hijjah, which is the day when the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) installed the Commander of the Faithful (as) as the people’s highest authority (after him).

I asked him, ‘What should we do on that Day?’ He (as) said, ‘You ought to fast during it to thank and praise Allah, though He ought to be thanked all the time. The Prophets had required their wasis to ast on the day when the latter are nominated as their successors and to consider it as an Eid. Whoever fasts during it will be regarded as having done so in sixty years." 2.

Fast of Eid Miladun-Nahi (phuh) Al-Karajki’s Kanz indicates that anyone who fasts the 17th of Rabi’ al-Awwal, when the Prophet (pbuh) was born, will be regarded as though he had fasted the whole year. 3. Fasting the First Days of ThuI-Hijjah On pp. 121-122, al-Majlisi, in Vol.

94 of his Bihar al-Anwar, quotes Muhammad ibn Ibrahim quoting ‘Uthman ibn Hammad quoting-alHassan ibn Muhammad al-Daqqaq quoting Ishaq ibn Wahab quoting Mansur ibn al-Muhajir quoting Muhammd iba al- ‘Ata quoting ‘Ayesha saying that a young man with a very beautiful voice used to fast as soon as the crescent of Thul-Hijjah was sighted, so people raised this issue with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) who ordered him to be brought to him.

Having presented himself before the Prophet (pbuh), he was asked by the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), ‘What makes you fast during these days?’ The young man said, ‘May both my father and mother be sacrificed for your sake, O Messenger of Allah!