Fasting on Ashura ..

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Re: Fasting on Ashura ..

@Chicken_Biryani

Sunni’s fast on the 9th and 10th or 10th and 11th of Muharram , due to a hadith that Muhammed SAW saw Jews fasting and asked them the reason for it, they stated that its a thanksgiving fast for helping Moosa AS against the fir’awn .. Prophet SAW said Moosa AS was a much more important person for us hence ordered the muslims to fast. However to keep the difference between the Jews and the muslims, he ordered us to fast two days in a row. Either the 9th and the 10th .. or the 10th and the 11th.

Right?

Now, several times I have heard various sects questioning the source of this hadith and saying that this could be a potential ploy of the jews to get muslims to start celebrating rather then mourning the Karbala Tragedy … Some muslims have even gone to the extent to calling it a biddah ..

I am keen to find out a bit more on this particular fasting we do and how strong a Hadith it is. If its not a strong Hadith then are there any doubts about it being an evil ploy by the evil forces? Please share your thoughts.

Many thanks ..

Being a Sunni we have always followed this in our family, fast on either 9th & 10th or 10th or 11th.