Rabiʻ II 1449

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Rabi' al-Thani (رَبيع الثاني), also called Rabi' al-Akhir, is the fourth month of the Islamic calendar. It is an ordinary month: no sacred status and no particular practice is established for it in the texts.

On this page: the Rabi' al-Thani 1449 calendar day by day, the dates for the coming years, and what to know about this month.

Ordinary month of the Islamic year

An ordinary month of the Islamic calendar

No major obligatory event and no specific worship is attached to Rabi' al-Thani in the Quran or the Sunnah. The lunar month has 29 or 30 days and passes like the other ordinary months of the Hijri year.

Voluntary fasts remain possible

Like every lunar month, Rabi' al-Thani lends itself to the general voluntary fasts recommended by the Sunnah: Monday and Thursday, or the white days of mid-month (the 13th, 14th and 15th). The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The most complete fast after that of Ramadan is the fast of the month of Allah Muharram, and the fast of one day of each month.” (narrated by an-Nasa'i and Abu Dawud).

An inherited calendar, a reformed usage

The name of Rabi', like those of the eleven other months, goes back to the calendar of the Arabs before Islam. The Quran confirmed the count of twelve months by abolishing the nasi': the pre-Islamic practice which shifted the months from one year to the next, going as far as moving the sacred months to permit fighting when it was forbidden.

Indeed, the postponing [of restriction within sacred months] is an increase in disbelief by which those who have disbelieved are led [further] astray. They make it lawful one year and unlawful another year to correspond to the number made unlawful by Allah and [thus] make lawful what Allah has made unlawful. Made pleasing to them is the evil of their deeds; and Allah does not guide the disbelieving people.

Surah at-Tawbah, 9:37

Islam thus kept the names of the Arab calendar but restored the order willed by Allah: the sacred months regain their place, and the year becomes again an exact count of twelve lunations, without human shifting.

Rabiʻ II 1449 calendar, day by day

Rabiʻ II 1449 counts 29 days according to the forecast calculation: its first day falls on 3 September 2027.

The date of 1 Rabiʻ II by year

The 12 Months of the Hijri Calendar

These dates are astronomical predictions based on the tabular calendar. The start of each hijri month depends on local crescent observation: a one-day shift is possible between countries.