Yawm al-Sabt (Saturday, fiqh)

يَوم السبت

Sabt lexically is rest, ceasing, an age, and a day of the week; the sabbath of the Jews is their ceasing from work and gain, and the jurists use the word in its lexical sense. Among its rules: fasting it alone is disliked on the majority view, on the hadith forbidding its fast except what is obligatory; and it bears on the treatment of Jews — the Hanbalis do not object to a Muslim pressing his Jewish wife to break her sabbath where his right is due, a Jew who fails to claim pre-emption because of his sabbath loses it, and a Jew is summoned to court on his sabbath on the Hanafi and Shafi'i view. ^{1 2 3}