More About the Month of Safar

Question:

Asalaamu Alikum,

Dear brother, i need to clarify about the 2nd islamic month SAFAR. IS there any misfortunmonth, but As many sayings it is not a good month to indulge in good deeds like marriages or establishing new firms etc…

PLs enlight on this as per Islamic shariah..

Awaits your reply! Jazaakh Allah

Best Regards

Answer:

Alaykum salam,

See this  Prayer Request and also the following.
A hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Nine Books states “La Safar” (there is no such thing as Safar) in three possible senses:

1- “La Safar” to mean that Safar is not to be considered a sacred month
instead of Muharram as claimed in Jahiliyya. This is narrated in Abu Dawud’s Sunan and elsewhere.

2- “La Safar” to negate the belief of Jahiliyya people that Safar was a snake that supposedly lived in the intestines of animals and human beings and killed them. This is the sense preferred by Bukhari, Imam Ahmad, Sufyan ibn `Uyayna, and others. These two senses are the most frequently cited senses in the hadith commentaries.

3- “La Safar” in the sense that Safar is not an inauspicious or ominous month to travel or get married or other activities as Jahiliyya people
claimed. This is narrated in Abu Dawud’s Sunan. The translation of “la
Safar” to mean “‘There is nothing ominous about the month of Safar” is
based on this third sense.

Ibn Rajab wrote a book entitled Lata’if al-Ma`arif on the attributes of
the seasons and days of the year in Islam, which contains a superb chapter
on Mawlid which insha Allah will be translated into English some day. In
that book Ibn Rajab said (1996 ed. p. 148): “To consider that there are
ill omens (tasha’um) in Safar is of the same category as forbidden
divination from bird-flights (tiyara).”

Each time of the year is blessed with the dhikr and worship with which
we fill it. Make dua and sadaqa in Safar and in every month. In
addition, our Masters advise against travelling in the last four days of
Safar.

Hajj Gibril Haddad