Muwatta Malik #712
Fasting
The Arabic includes the chain of narration (sanad) and the collector's commentary; the English translation shows the Prophet's words only.
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ، مَوْلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَصُومُ حَتَّى نَقُولَ لاَ يُفْطِرُ وَيُفْطِرُ حَتَّى نَقُولَ لاَ يَصُومُ وَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم اسْتَكْمَلَ صِيَامَ شَهْرٍ قَطُّ إِلاَّ رَمَضَانَ وَمَا رَأَيْتُهُ فِي شَهْرٍ أَكْثَرَ صِيَامًا مِنْهُ فِي شَعْبَانَ .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'n Nadr, the mawla of Umar
ibn Ubaydullah, from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman that A'isha, the
wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used
to fast for so long that we thought he would never stop fasting, and
he would go without fasting for so long that we thought he would never
fast again. I never saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, fast for a complete month except for Ramadan, and
I never saw him do more fasting in any one month than he did in
Shaban.'
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This hadith is #712 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Fasting.