Hakam bin 'Araj reported: I asked Ibn Abbas (RA) as he was reclining using his cloak as a pillow near Zamzam about fasting on 'Ashura. The rest of the hadith is the same.

Ibn 'Abbas reported that when the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) fasted on the day of 'Ashura and commanded that it should he observed as a fast, they (his Companions) said to him: Messenger of Allah, it is a day which the Jews and Christians hold in high esteem. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: When the next year comes, God willing, we would observe fast on the 9th But the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died before the advent of the next year.

Abdullah b 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: If I live till the next (year), I would definitely observe fast on the 9th, and the narration transmitted by Abu Bakr (RA) is: "He meant the day of Ashura."

Salama bin al-Akwa' (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) sent a person of the tribe of Aslam on the day of 'Ashura and commanded him to declare to the people to observe fast in case they had not observed it, and to complete fast till evening if they had taken food.

Rubayyi' daughter of Mu'awwidh bin 'Afra' said that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) sent (a person) on the morning of Ashura to the villages of Ansar around Madinah (with this message): He who got up in the morning fasting (without eating anything) he should complete his fast, and he who had had his breakfast in the morning, he should complete the rest of the day (without food). The Companions said; We henceforth observed fast on it (on the day of 'Ashura) and, God willing, made our children observe that. We went to the mosque and made toys out of wool for them and when anyone felt hungry and wept for food we gave them these toys till it was the time to break the fast.

Khalid bin Dhakwan reported: I asked Rubayyi' daugther of Mu'awwidh about fasting on the day of 'Ashura. Thereupon she said: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (may peace he upon him) sent his messenger to the villages of the Ansar, and the rest of the hadith is the same (but with this variation that one of the Companions) said: "We used to make toys out of wool and took (them to the mosque) along with us. When they (the children) asked us for food, we gave them these toys to play with, and these made them forgetful till they completed their fast."

Abu Ubaid, the freed slave of Ibn Azhar, reported: I observed Id along with Umar bin al-Khattab (RA) . He came (out in an open space) and prayed and (after) completing it addressed the people and said: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) has forbidden the observing of fast on these two days. One is the day of Fitr (at the end of your fasts), and the second one, the day when you eat (the meat) of your sacrifices.

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade to observe fast on these two days. 'Id-ul-Adha bi and 'Id-ul-Fitr.

Qaza'a related from Abu Sa'id. He said: I heard from him (Abu Sa'id) a hadith which impressed me, and I said to him: Did you hear it from the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) ? Thereupon he said: (Is it possible) that (I should) say about the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) that which I have not heard? I heard him saying: It is not proper to fast on two days, Adha and Fitr (at the end) of Ramadan.

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade to observe fast on two days the day of Fitr and the day of Sacrifice ('Id-ul-Adha).