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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that al-Qasim
ibn Muhammad and Nafi, the mawla of Abdullah ibn Umar said, "You
cannot do itikaf unless you are fasting, because of what Allah, the
Blessed and Exalted, says in His Book, 'And eat and drink until the
white thread becomes clear to you from the black thread of dawn, then
complete the fast until night-time, and do not have intercourse with
them while you are doing itikaf in mosques,' (Sura 2 ayat 187). Allah
only mentions itikaf together with fasting."
Muwatta Malik Book 19, Hadith 4
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had asked Ibn Shihab
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Yahya related to me that Ziyad ibn Abd ar-Rahman said, "Malik
related to us from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman,
that Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman was once doing itikaf and he would go
out to relieve himself in a closed room under a roofed passage in
Khalid ibn Walid's house. Otherwise he did not leave his place of
itikaf until he went to pray at the Id with the muslims."