Sahih al-Bukhari 1977

Hadith text

Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr:The news of my daily fasting and praying every night throughout the night reached the Prophet. So he sent for me or I met him, and he said, "I have been informed that you fast everyday and pray every night (all the night). Fast (for some days) and give up fasting (for some days); pray and sleep, for your eyes have a right on you, and your body and your family (i.e. wife) have a right on you." I replied, "I have more power than that (fasting)." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Then fast like the fasts of (the Prophet) David". I said, "How?" He replied, "He used to fast on alternate days, and he used not to flee on meeting the enemy." I said, "From where can I get that chance?" (`Ata' said, "I do not know how the expression of fasting daily throughout the life occurred.") So, the Prophet (ﷺ) said, twice, "Whoever fasts daily throughout his life is just as the one who does not fast at all

Abdullah bin Amr (رضی اللہ عنہما) bataate hain: Meri har-roz roza aur har-raat poori raat namaz padhne ki khabar Nabi tak pahunchi. Isliye unhone mujhe bulaya ya main unse mila, aur unhone kaha: "Mujhe bataya gaya hai ke tum har din roza rakhte ho aur poori raat (har raat) namaz padhte ho. Roza rakho (kuch dinon ke liye) aur roza chhod do (kuch dinon ke liye); namaz padho aur so bhi jao, kyunke tumhari aankhon ka bhi tumpar haqq hai, aur tumhare jism aur tumhare pariwara (biwi) ka bhi tumpar haqq hai." Maine jawab diya: "Mujhme isse zyada taaqat hai." Nabi ne kaha: "To phir (Nabi) Dawud jaisa roza rakho." Maine pucha: "Kaise?" Unhone jawab diya: "Woh har alternate din roza rakhte the, aur dushman se milte waqt woh kabhi bhaagte nahi the." Maine kaha: "Mujhe yeh mauka kahan milega?" (Ata ne kaha: "Mujhe nahi pata poori zindagi har-roz roza rakhne ki baat kaise aayi.") To Nabi ne do baar kaha: "Jo bhi apni poori zindagi har-roz roza rakhta hai, woh us shaks jaisa hai jo bilkul roza nahi rakhta."

Sahih al-Bukhari 1977 · Book 30, Hadith 84