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ahmad:22517 – Hushaym b. Bashīr > Manṣūr / Ibn Zādhān > Qatādah > ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad al-Zimmānī > Abū Qatādah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about fasting on the Day of Arafah, and he said: "It expiates the sins of two years." And he was asked about fasting on the Day of Ashura, and he said: "It expiates the sins of one year."  

أحمد:٢٢٥١٧ – حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا مَنْصُورٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَاذَانَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ الزِّمَّانِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنْ صَوْمِ يَوْمِ عَرَفَةَ فَقَالَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَتَيْنِ وَسُئِلَ عَنْ صَوْمِ يَوْمِ عَاشُورَاءَ فَقَالَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَةٍ  

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ahmad:22588 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Sufyān > Manṣūr > Mujāhid > Ḥarmalah b. Iyās al-Shaybāniyyiʿan Abū Qatādah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said: "Fasting the day of Arafat expiates the sins of the previous year and the coming year, and fasting the day of Ashura expiates the sins of a year."  

أحمد:٢٢٥٨٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ حَرْمَلَةَ بْنِ إِيَاسٍ الشَّيْبَانِيِّعَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ صَوْمُ يَوْمِ عَرَفَةَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَتَيْنِ سَنَةٍ مَاضِيَةٍ وَسَنَةٍ مُسْتَقْبَلَةٍ وَصَوْمُ يَوْمِ عَاشُورَاءَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَةٍ  

bayhaqi:8381 – Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān> Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār > ʿAbdullāh b. Ayyūb al-Makhramī > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Dāwud b. Shābūr > Abū Qazaʿah > Abū al-Khalīl > Abū Ḥarmalah > Abū Qatādah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said: The fasting of the Day of Arafah is an expiation for the sins of the previous year and the coming year, and the fasting of the Day of Ashura is an expiation for the sins of the previous year.  

البيهقي:٨٣٨١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ ثنا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْمَخْرَمِيُّ ثنا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ شَابُورَ عَنْ أَبِي قَزَعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِ عَنْ أَبِي حَرْمَلَةَ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ

النَّبِيَّ ﷺ صَوْمُ يَوْمِ عَرَفَةَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَةٍ وَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا وَصَوْمُ يَوْمِ عَاشُورَاءَ كَفَّارَةُ سَنَةٍ