Musnad Ahmad 6041

Translation

✧ We are an unlettered nation; we do not calculate or write. The month is like this, like this, and like this — and he folded his thumb the third time.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2138

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. ʿAmr b. Saʿīd b. al-ʿĀṣ al-ʿUdhrī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Isḥāq b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Dāwūd said: 170 AH, al-Bukhārī said: 176 AH
   إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   هَاشِمٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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