The obligatory fast and the voluntary ones: what invalidates a fast, what is owed in compensation, and the observances of Ramaḍān.
Chapters
- 1. Chapter on the Reason for the Obligation of Fasting 4 hadith
- 2. Chapter on Supplications for the First Day of the Month of Ramadan 2 hadith
- 3. Chapter on Supplications at the Time of Breaking the Fast Each Night in the Month of Ramadan 3 hadith
- 4. Chapter on the Etiquettes of the Fasting Person, What Invalidates the Fast, and What Does Not Invalidate it 31 hadith
- 5. Chapter on What is Obligatory for One Who Breaks the Fast or Engages in Intercourse in the Month of Ramadan Intentionally or Forgetfully 19 hadith
- 6. Chapter on the Age at Which Children Are Required to Observe Fasting 5 hadith
- 7. Chapter on Fasting Upon Sighting the Moon and Breaking the Fast Upon Sighting the Moon 14 hadith
- 8. Chapter on Fasting on the Day of Doubt 10 hadith
- 9. Chapter on the Time When Breaking the Fast Becomes Permissible and Prayer Becomes Obligatory 2 hadith
- 10. Chapter on the Time When Eating and Drinking Become Forbidden for the Fasting Person and the Morning Prayer Becomes Permissible 7 hadith
- 11. Chapter on the Extent of Illness That Permits Breaking the Fast 6 hadith
- 12. Chapter on the Virtue of Fasting 14 hadith
- 13. What Has Been Said About Those Who Are Unable to Fast, Whether They Are an Elderly Person, a Young Person, a Pregnant Woman, or a Nursing Mother 5 hadith
- 14. Chapter on the Reward of One Who Provides Iftar to a Fasting Person 5 hadith
- 15. Chapter on the Reward of Suhoor 7 hadith
- 16. Chapter on a Man Who Observes Voluntary Fasts While He Still Owes Obligatory Fasts 1 hadith
- 17. Chapter on Prayer in the Month of Ramadan 4 hadith
- 18. Chapter on What Has Been Narrated Regarding the Disliked Nature of Traveling in the Month of Ramadan 5 hadith
- 19. Chapter on the Obligation of Shortening the Fast During Travel 15 hadith
- 20. Chapter on Fasting for Menstruating and Post-Menstrual Women 7 hadith
- 21. Chapter on Making up Fasts of the Month of Ramadan 13 hadith
- 22. Chapter on Making up Fasts on Behalf of the Deceased 3 hadith
- 23. Chapter on the Types of Fasting 1 hadith
- 24. Chapter on the Expiation for Breaking a Vowed Fast 2 hadith
- 25. Chapter on Fasting with Authorization 18 hadith
- 26. Chapter on Supplications for Each Night of the Last Ten Nights of the Month of Ramadan 1 hadith
- 27. Chapter on Bidding Farewell to the Month of Ramadan 1 hadith
- 28. Chapter on the Takbir on the Night and Day of Eid Al-Fitr and What is Said in the Prostration of Gratitude After Maghrib 3 hadith
- 29. Chapter on What is Obligatory Upon People if the Sightedness of the Day of Eid Al-Fitr is Confirmed After They Have Begun the Day Fasting 2 hadith
- 30. Chapter on Miscellaneous Topics 22 hadith
- 31. Chapter on Zakat Al-Fitrah 25 hadith
- 32. Chapter on i'tikaf (spiritual retreat) 23 hadith
- 33. Chapter on the Recommended Fasts of the Year 15 hadith
- 34. Chapter on Voluntary Fasting and Its Rewards on Different Days 20 hadith
- 35. Chapter on the Reward of Fasting in Rajab 3 hadith
- 36. Chapter on the Reward of Fasting in sha’ban 8 hadith
- 37. Chapter on the Virtue of Month of Ramadan and the Reward of Fasting in it 14 hadith
- 38. Chapter on What to Say Upon Sight of the Crescent of the Month of Ramadan 3 hadith