Fasting during the month of Sha`baan

Aa’isha رضي الله عنها said:

“I have never seen the Messenger of Allaah صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم completing the fast of a month as he did for Ramadhan, and I have never seen him fasting so much as he would in Sha`baan.”

[al-Bukhari & Muslim]

** Sha`baan is the month before Ramadan