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What is the ruling on the fasting of a person who vowed to fast fifteen days, and it happened that he began fasting on Saturday the fifteenth of Sha'ban and continued until Ramadan, while knowing that it is not permissible to single out Saturday for fasting?

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One who has a votive fast to fulfill may observe it in the latter half of Sha'ban, even according to those who hold fasting during that period to be disliked.

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