Sunan Abi Dawud 2321

Translation

'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz wrote (a letter) to the people of Basrah: It has reached us from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, like the tradition narrated by Ibn 'Umar from the Prophet ﷺ. This version adds: The best calculation is that when we sight the moon of Sha'ban on such-and-such date, fasting will being on such-and-such dates, Allah willing, except they they sight the moon before that (date).

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ، حَدَّثَنِي أَيُّوبُ، قَالَ كَتَبَ عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ بَلَغَنَا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم. نَحْوَ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم زَادَ وَإِنَّ أَحْسَنَ مَا يُقَدَّرُ لَهُ إِذَا رَأَيْنَا هِلاَلَ شَعْبَانَ لِكَذَا وَكَذَا فَالصَّوْمُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لِكَذَا وَكَذَا إِلاَّ أَنْ تَرَوُا الْهِلاَلَ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ

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What scholars said about it

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• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  رجاله ثقات لكنه منقطع

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 2321

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2128al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15270al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2450

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān

   He was with Sulaymān like a minister (wazīr), and he assumed the caliphate after him, so he is counted among the rightly guided caliphs.d. 99 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH
   عُمَر بْن عَبْد الْعَزِيز بْن مَرْوَانوكان مع سليمان كالوزير وولي الخلافة بعده فعد مع الخلفاء الراشدين
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   حدثني
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed three years before his deathd. 194 AH or 195 AH or 184 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِثقة ، تغير قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   نا
4. 4
   Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 244 AH
   حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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