 On Itikaf and fasting
YAHYA related to me from Malik that he had heard that Al-Qasim Ibn Muhammad and Nafi, the mawla of Abdullah Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) 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 nighttime, and do not have intercourse with them while you are doing Itikaf in mosques, (Surah 2: 187). Allah only mentions Itikaf together with fasting. Malik said, That is what we go by here. Malik s Muwatta, Book 19, Number 19.2.4 
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