Muwatta Malik #720
I'tikaf in Ramadan
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، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ الْقَاسِمَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَنَافِعًا، مَوْلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالاَ لاَ اعْتِكَافَ إِلاَّ بِصِيَامٍ بِقَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فِي كِتَابِهِ {وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ وَلاَ تُبَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَأَنْتُمْ عَاكِفُونَ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ} فَإِنَّمَا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ الاِعْتِكَافَ مَعَ الصِّيَامِ . قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَعَلَى ذَلِكَ الأَمْرُ عِنْدَنَا أَنَّهُ لاَ اعْتِكَافَ إِلاَّ بِصِيَامٍ .
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."
Malik said,
"That is what we go by here."
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This hadith is #720 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of I'tikaf in Ramadan.