The month of "Saffar"

Society Religion & Philosophy
1

Right after the month of Muharram, we are now in the month of Saffar. Its the second month of Islamic calendar. Since my early childhood days, my naani and my mother used to increase their prayers and charity a lot during this month. They always say “ye bhaari maheena hai”. Increasing prayers and charity is only a good and so from that point on, I have made it my practice too.

What I am not sure is about the “bhaari pann”. I have not done a lot of reseach on this, but I am assuming it is based on some ahadeeth. Atleast some part of this are added later by the unique sub-continental culture of superstitions. Like “taiz tera”, which apparently means that 13th of Saffar is a bad day. One time, the imam at Friday sermon in Lahore tackled this subject and said that a lot of “don’t travel during Saffar” etc advise originates from Hindu customs of badd-shagooni kinda stuff. Not sure.

Does anyone of you have any credible references on this topic, or even any personal experiences or family advice, if any, about the month of Saffar?

2

Credible references or not I've made it a practice to pray a lot more in this month after reading a few books regarding the month of Saffar.

It is said our Prophet use to increase prayers during this month because obstacles would befall from the skies by Allah and the obstacles in this month are very hard to over come. Whats worse is that if you dont' ask to seek shelter in this month, your putting yourself in harms way.

Even the scholar of our community advised to pray further when not doing anything.

I can't post any sources as I've read this in the book center. But makes you tremble out of fear to pray. heh, motivation enough for me.

side note dua hands icon would be nice