Upon me are Fasts for a month if my uncle would come out from the prison.
Upon me are Fasts for a month if my uncle would come out from the prison. So he came out. So I woke up in the morning and I intended the Fasting, but one of our companions came over to me. So I called for the lunch and had lunch with him’. The Imam -asws said: ‘There is no problem’.
[16] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِفْطَارُكَ لِأَخِيكَ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ صِيَامِكَ تَطَوُّعاً . A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Your breaking the Fast for your Believing brother is superior to your own optional Fast’.
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Salih Bin Uqba, from Jameel Bin Darraj who said, ‘Abu Abullah -asws said: ‘The one who goes over to his brother and he is Fasting, so he breaks in his presence and he does not let him know of his Fast that he is doing him a favour, Allah -azwj would Write for him the Fasts of a year’.
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Deynawry, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Salih Bin Uqba who said, ‘I went over to Jameel Bin Darraj and in front of him was a meal, eating eagerly from it. So he said, ‘Approach and eat’. So I said, ‘I am Fasting’.