Fasting

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Event

• The prescription of the Ramadan fast

  c. 624 CE · 2 AHThe fast of the month of Ramadan was prescribed for the Muslims of Medina in the second year after the Hijra.

Place

• al-Kudayd

  A watering place between Usfan and Amaj on the road between Medina and Mecca; there the Prophet broke his fast and the army broke theirs on the march of the Conquest in Ramadan 8 AH.

Practice

• Fasting in Ramadan

  Fasting through the month of Ramadan; the Qur'an prescribes it and says that whoever witnesses the month should fast it, with a number of other days for the sick and the traveller.

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