[290] Ensuring that the testator is neither intentionally nor unintentionally unfair or inequitable by giving out to a non-legal inheritor more than a third of the total inheritance (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).
[291] By making just and fair adjustments to the will such that disputes are avoided (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).
[292] The days of the month of Ramadan. (al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, al-Qurṭubī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)
[293] This license is said to have been in force during the earlier days of Islam but was abrogated by the next aya which limits it to the ill and travelling. The ruling that remains is: “Whom of you witnesses the month let him fast it”. (Cf. Ibn Ḥazm, al-Nāsikh wa al-Mansūkh, p. 26.)
[294] By giving the needy more than the quantity stipulated by jurists as compensation for leaving out days of mandatory fasting, or feeding more than one person. (al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, Ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʿĀshūr)
[295] This either means that the Qur’an was sent down from the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ) to the Lowest Heaven (al-Samā’ al-Dunyā) on the Night of Decree (Laylat al-Qadr) during the month of Ramadan (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Qurṭubī); or that the start of the revelation of the Qur’an to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) began on the Night of Decree (cf. Ibn Isḥāq, Ibn al-Jawzī, Zād al Masīr, Ibn ʿĀshūr, Ibn ʿUthaymīn).
[296] By saying the Takbīr of Eid (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭui, Ibn Kathīr).
[297] God takes on the answer directly to His servants without the need for intercession. God’s nearness means that one need not raise one’s voice or ask for intercession for God to hear one’s Prayers and answer them.