'''Nisfu Sya'ban''' adalah peringatan pada tanggal 15 bulan kedelapan ([[Sya'ban]]) dari [[kalender Islam]]. Hari ini juga dikenal sebagai '''Laylatul Bara’ah''' atau '''Laylatun Nisfe min Sha’ban''' di dunia ArabIndonesia, dan sebagai '''Shab-e-barat'''<ref name="ref64julix">{{Citation | title=Law and order in upper India: a study of Oudh, 1856-1877 | author=Dinesh Bihari Trivedi, A. H. M. Zehadul Karim | publisher=Northern Book Centre, 1990 | isbn=978-81-85119-83-0 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=t9wLynyZJVsC | quote=''... The first significant religious occasion shabe-barat (lailat- ul-barat or the night of deliverance) is held in the middle of Shaban (eighth month of the Islamic calendar) ...''}}</ref><ref name="ref09faruj">{{Citation | title=Embroidering lives: women's work and skill in the Lucknow embroidery industry | author=Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber | publisher=SUNY Press, 1999 | isbn=978-0-7914-4088-9 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=j183x2zeNJwC | quote=''... Shab-barat is observed with nightlong prayer and recitation (in the mosque for men, and at home for the women).}}</ref> di [[Afghanistan]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Pakistan]], [[Iran]] dan [[India]]. Nama-nama ini diterjemahkan menjadi "malam pengampunan dosa", "malam berdoa" dan "malam pembebasan", dan seringkali diperingati dengan berjaga sepanjang malam untuk beribadah.<ref name="ref30mucul">{{Citation | title=Islam: Religions of the world | author=Jamal J. Elias | publisher=Psychology Press, 1999 | isbn=978-0-415-21165-9 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mxCAhwKdgrYC | quote=''... Laylat al-bara'a ... fortune for the coming year is popularly believed to be registered in Heaven ... prayer vigils and by feasting and illumination ... oblations are made in the name of deceased ancestors ...''}}</ref> Di beberapa daerah, malam ini juga merupakan malam ketika nenek moyang yang telah wafat diperingati.<ref name="ref30mucul"/>
