Sheikh ibn 'Uthaymīn (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) said: *"Righteous actions, including fasting, in the ˹first˺ ten days of  Dhū al-Ḥijjah are more beloved to ALLĀH than righteous actions in the last ten days of Ramaḍān.* *"Yet the people are heedless of the ten days of Dhū al-Ḥijjah. They pass and the people are upon their normals ways. You find no increase in reading the Qur'ān or other types of worship, rather some of them are even stingy with the takbīr."* 📚 Ash-Sharḥ al-Mumti (6/470)