Musnad Ahmad 7581

Translation

✧ When you sight the new moon, fast; and when you sight it, break the fast. If it is obscured from you, then fast thirty days.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  فروي من وجوه من حديث سعيد بن المسيب وأبي سلمة والأعرج ومحمد بن زياد وغيرهم وهي ثابتة وسائر الطرق في هذا الحديث كلها حسان عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationIt is narrated through several routes: from the hadith of Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, Abū Salamah, al-Aʿraj, Muḥammad b. Ziyād and others, and it is established. All the other routes of this hadith are good (ḥasan), from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 7655

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1900Sahih al-Bukhari 1906Sahih al-Bukhari 1907Sahih Muslim 1080c

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

   One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنُ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Kāmil

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he used to narrate only from trustworthy narratorsd. 207 AH
   أَبُو كَامِلٍثقة متقن ، كان لا يحدث إلا عن ثقة
   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

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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.