Is There Any Special Virtue In Fasting During The Month Of Rajab Either On 27th Rajab?!!

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All praises & thanks are be to ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى). The Lord of the Aa'lameen.

As'Salaamu Alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakaatuh,

The month of Rajab is one of the sacred months of which ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) says:

“Verily, the number of months with ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) is twelve months (in a year), so was it ordained by ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) on the Day when He created the heavens and the earth; of them four are Sacred (i.e. the 1st, the 7th, the 11th and the 12th months of the Islamic calendar). That is the right religion, so wrong not yourselves therein”
[al-Tawbah 9:36]

The sacred months are: Rajab, Dhu’l-Qa’dah, Dhu’l-Hijjah and Muharram.

Narrated from Abu Bakrah ‎رضي الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰعنه that the Prophet ‎صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ said:

"The year is twelve months, of which four are sacred: three consecutive months, Dhu’l-Qa’dah, Dhu’l-Hijjah and Muharram, and Rajab Mudar which comes between Jumaada and Sha’baan.
[Al-Bukhaari (4662) and Muslim (1679)]

These months are called sacred for two reasons:

1- Because fighting therein is forbidden unless initiated by the enemy.

2- Because transgression of the sacred limits therein is worse than at other times.

Hence ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) has forbidden us to commit sins during these months, as He says:

“wrong not yourselves therein”
[al-Tawbah 9:36]

Although committing sins is haraam and forbidden during these months and at other times, in these months it is more forbidden.

To be Continued in shaa Allah

Secondly:

With regard to fasting the month of Rajab, there is no sahih hadith to indicate that there is any special virtue in fasting all or part of this month.

What some people do, singling out some days of Rajab for fasting, believing that they are better than others, has no basis in shari’ah.

But there is a report from the Prophet ‎صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ which indicates that it is mustahabb to fast during the sacred months (and Rajab is one of the sacred months). The Prophet ‎صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ said: “Fast some days of the sacred months and not others.”
[Narrated by Abu Dawood, 2428; classed as da’eef (weak) by al-Albaani in Da’eef (weak) Abi Dawood]

Even if this hadith were sahih, it indicates that it is mustahabb to fast during the sacred months. So if a person fasts during Rajab because of this, and he also fasts in the other sacred months, there is nothing wrong with that. But singling out Rajab for fasting is not right.

To be Continued in shaa Allah

Continued and Concluded, AlhamduliLlah

Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah Rahmatullah said in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (25/290):

As for fasting in Rajab in particular, the ahaadith concerning that are all da’eef (weak), and in fact mawdoo (fabricated). The scholars do not rely on any of them. They arq-Qayyim Rahmatullah said:

Every hadith which mentions fasting in Rajab and praying during some of its nights is false and fabricated.
[from al-Manaar al-Muneef, p. 96]

Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said in Tabyeen al-Ajab (p. 11)

There is no sahih hadith that would count as evidence which speaks of the virtue of the month of Rajab, or that speaks of fasting this month or part of it, or of spending any particular night of it in prayer.

Shaikh Sayyid Saabiq Rahmatullah said in Fiqh al-Sunnah (1/282):

Fasting in Rajab is no better than fasting in any other month, except that it is one of the sacred months. There is no report in the sahih Sunnah to suggest that there is anything special about fasting in this month. Whatever has been narrated concerning that is not fit to be quoted as evidence.

Shaikh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahmatullah alyhi) was asked about fasting on the twenty seventh of Rajab and spending that night in prayer. He replied:

Fasting on the twenty seventh of Rajab and spending that night in prayer is a bid’ah (innovation), and every bid’ah is a going astray.
[Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 20/440]

And ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) knows best.

May ALLAH (سبحانه وتعالى) make things easy to understand His sahih deen which leads us among with righteous ummah & protect us from any kind of bid'ah.

That we have seen, we have heard...may Allah help us to obey...