Musnad Ahmad 18825

Translation

✧ Do not anticipate the month until you complete the count or sight the new moon, and fast and do not break the fast until you complete the count or sight the new moon.

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What scholars said about it

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• ابن عبد الهادي الحنبلي

  أحمد إنما أراد أن الصحيح قول من قال عن رجل من أصحاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وجهالته غير قادحة في صحة الحديث

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19061

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2327Sunan an-Nasa'i 2127

Narrators

1. 1
   Aḥad al-ṣaḥābah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh al-ʿAbsī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AH
   رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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