Shrewd Shanaaqitah | A benefit transmitted from Sheikh Faisal Al-Hashidi

“Today I heard an amazing benefit mentioned by one of the Shanaaqitah scholars. He said: إن في صوم النبي ﷺ يوم الإثنين وتنبيهه على أنه يوم مولده لأمته تحذير من النبي من الاحتفال بمولده ... The Prophet ﷺ fasting on Mondays and him informing his Ummah that this was the day in which he was born serves as a warning from the Prophet ﷺ to his ummah against celebrating his birthday... ثم بين وجه استنباطه هذا فقال: إن العيد لا يصام فيه، فصيام النبي ومواظبته على ذلك مع تنبيهه المذكور كل ذلك لأجل ألا تتخذ أمته يوم مولده عيدًا. Then he explained the angle of this deduction of his, saying: 'Eid is not a day of fasting, so the fact that the Prophet ﷺ fasted on this day and his persistence in that, along with his aforementioned warning; all of this so that his Ummah does not take his birthday as a day of celebration.” [end quote]