Ruling on Eating Snow for the Fasting Person
Anas t, said: “Snow fell upon us and Abu Talhah t, was fasting. He began eating it. We said to him, ‘You eat while you fast? He replied, ‘This is but a blessing”[1]
Ibn Hazm said: “Among peculiarities is that Abu Talhah would eat snow while fasting and some say “It is neither Eating nor Drinking!”[2]
Shaikh Al-Albaani said, “And this mawqoof hadeeth (an act or saying that reaches only to a companion) is among the proofs for the falseness of the hadeeth, “ My companions are lke stars, whicever of them are followed you will be guided.”[3] When if it were correct then the one who eats snow during Ramadhaan would not have broken his fast by following Abu Talhah t, and this is something that no muslim would think of saying today.
In Sharh ‘Ilaal At-Tirmidhi 1/12, Haafiz Ibn Rajab mentioned tis practice among those which the scholars agree to avoiding and not acting upon it.
[1] Its chain is authentic as Ibn Hazm has said in Ihkaam ul Ahkaam 6/83 and our Shaikh agreed in the new edition of Silsilat al-Ahadeeth Adh-Dha’eef 1/154 and Al-Bazaar said This act is not known except from Abu Talhah.”
[2] Al-Muhalla 6/255
[3] SeeKashaf al-Khifaa 1/147, at-Talkhees al-Khabeer 4/190, Lisaan al-Meezaan 2/488
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