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Ziyad related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Amra bint Abd
ar-Rahman from A'isha that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, once wanted to do itikaf, and when he went off to
the place where he wanted to do itikaf he found some tents there,
which were A'isha's tent, Hafsa's tent, and Zaynab's tent. When he saw
them he asked about them and someone told him that they were the tents
of A'isha, Hafsa and Zaynab. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "Do you think them devout?" Then he
left, and did not do itikaf until Shawwal, when he then did it for ten
days.
Muwatta Malik Book 19, Hadith 7
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Yahya related to me from Ziyad from Malik that he saw some of the
people of knowledge who, when they did itikaf in the last ten days of
Ramadan, would not go back to their families until they had attended
the Id al-Fitr with everybody.
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Malik was asked whether someone who went into a mosque to do
itikaf for the last ten days of Ramadan and stayed there for a day or
two but then became ill and left the mosque, had to do itikaf for the
number of days that were left from the ten, or not, and if he did have
to do so, then what month should he do it in, and he replied, "He
should make up whatever he has to do of the itikaf when he recovers,
whether in Ramadan or otherwise. I have heard that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, once wanted to do
itikaf in Ramadan, but then came back without having done so, and then
when Ramadan had gone, he did itikaf for ten days in Shawwal.