Sunnah fasting days in August 2022

August 2022 spans Muharram 1444 – Safar 1444 AH on the standard Umm al-Qura reckoning. Below is every recommended fasting day in the month with its exact date. If your community's moon sighting runs a day ahead or behind, shift the Hijri dates by one day — the converter and calendar feed both have a ±1 sync setting for exactly this.

3 Muharram 1444 AH Monday fast
6 Muharram 1444 AH Thursday fast
9 Muharram 1444 AH Ashura / Tasu’a
10 Muharram 1444 AH Ashura / Tasu’a · Monday fast
13 Muharram 1444 AH White Day (Ayyam al-Beed) · Thursday fast
17 Muharram 1444 AH Monday fast
20 Muharram 1444 AH Thursday fast
24 Muharram 1444 AH Monday fast
27 Muharram 1444 AH Thursday fast
2 Safar 1444 AH Monday fast

To understand any of these days — the White Days, Mondays & Thursdays, Ashura, Arafah — the blog walks through each one with sources quoted verbatim.

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