The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“Whoever fasts Ramadan and follows it with six days from Shawwal it is as if they fasted the entire year.”
[Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah]
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Umm Zaynah
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Masha-Allah! JazakAllahu khair and thank you so much brother for this important reminder. I believe that for those Muslim to earn the reward of fasting six days of Shawwal, they should first compensate and make up for those missed days in Ramadan on which they didn’t fast.
Allahu A’lam.
You are correct in that one should make up the missed fasts of Ramadan before completing the 6 Sunnah Fasts of Shawwal.
JazakAllahu Khair
Abu Zaynah