This page gathers the du‘ā the Sabīl library gives for breaking the fast (ifṭār). The du‘ā is quoted here from two places: a card of the Pocket Companion, and a row of the Ramaḍān poster. The poster's row before that one is shown as well. Each entry is shown from the library, with its Arabic, its meaning, and the source and grade the library gives it.
It gives no ruling about the fast, and it sets no time, number or promise of its own: where an entry mentions one, the words are the entry's. For a ruling, or for a question about your own fast, ask a scholar.
The Ramaḍān card of the Pocket Companion
The Hijri Companion set of the Pocket Companion has a card headed "Ramaḍān". It has three parts, each under a label.
The first, "The month", is one line that names the fast, tarāwīḥ, seeking Laylat al-Qadr, i‘tikāf and Zakāt al-Fiṭr. The line also says when each falls; those words are the card's, shown with the card below, and this page does not repeat them. The library cites the line to al-Bukhārī and Muslim with the grade ṣaḥīḥ.
The second, "Breaking the fast", is the du‘ā this page is about: one short sentence, with a transliteration and a meaning. The library cites it to Abū Dāwūd and grades it ḥasan. The same source line ends with the words "break on dates, or water". This page adds nothing to the card's label about when, how or how many times the du‘ā is said.
The third, "Laylat al-Qadr", is another du‘ā. The library cites it to at-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah with the grade ṣaḥīḥ, and its source line ends with the words "taught to ‘Ā’ishah for that night". It is shown here because it is on the card; for that night, see the article on the last ten nights and Laylat al-Qadr.
The Maghrib row of the Ramaḍān poster
The Ramaḍān poster sets the day out in numbered rows. Its row 04 is headed "Maghrib — break the fast at once".
The row carries the du‘ā too, with its meaning. After the meaning it has two more sentences. The first reads "Fresh dates, or dried, or water." The second is about the supplication of the one who is fasting; it is shown with the row below, and this page does not restate it.
The row's source line gives two citations, Abū Dāwūd and at-Tirmidhī, each with the grade ḥasan. This page does not say which sentence of the row each citation is for.
The words "break the fast at once" are the poster's heading, quoted here as the poster has them. Exactly when a fast is broken is a ruling: this page does not give one, and the question is one for a scholar.
The row before it: through the day
The poster's row 03 is headed "Through the day — guard the tongue". Its line begins "If someone abuses you or picks a quarrel", gives a short phrase to say, with the meaning "I am fasting", and ends with a sentence about false speech. The library cites the row to al-Bukhārī with the grade ṣaḥīḥ.
What this page does not quote, and does not answer
The library's Ramaḍān cards also have a card headed "Suḥūr & ifṭār". The library's own checking has not settled a question about one of its lines, so the card is linked here and not quoted.
This page does not say what breaks a fast, how the intention is made, when eating stops, or exactly when the fast is broken. Those are rulings: ask a scholar.
Where to go next
- Ramaḍān, the app's Ramaḍān screen, lists each day of the month at your place with a time under "Ifṭār". The time is worked out on your device; in the words of the screen's own note, it is "the start of Maghrib as calculated for your place, with no margin added". The note ends: "Where your masjid announces its own times, follow those."
- Prayer times by city has today's prayer times and this month's timetable for the cities the app knows by name.
- The Pocket Companion can be printed as cards, and the Ramaḍān poster as a poster. The Ramaḍān cards are the library's title on the month.
- The last ten nights and Laylat al-Qadr and Ramaḍān 2027 are two more articles on the month.