al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8028
✧ Fasting by Sight of the Crescent or Completing the Count of Thirty
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وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو حَامِدِ بْنُ بِلَالٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَزْهَرِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَجِيدِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، ثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:
إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى جَعَلَ الْأَهِلَّةَ مَوَاقِيتَ، فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَصُومُوا، وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَأَفْطِرُوا، فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاقْدُرُوا لَهُ أَتِمُّوهُ ثَلَاثِينَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh Anbaʾ Abū Ḥāmid b. Bilāl
- Abū al-Azhar
- ʿAbd al-Majīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Rawwād
- my father
- Nāfiʿ
- Ibn ʿUmar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Machine translation, not reviewed
Indeed, Allah, Blessed and Exalted, has made the crescent moons markers of time. So when you see it, fast, and when you see it, break the fast. And if it is obscured from you, then calculate for it: complete it as thirty days.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1900Sahih al-Bukhari 1906Sahih al-Bukhari 1907Sahih Muslim 1080c
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AHنَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهورعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout worshipper, sometimes had lapses (wahm), and accused of Irjāʾd. close to the year 155 AH, or 159 AHأَبِيصدوق ، عابد ، ربما وهم ، ورمي بالإرجاءحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) but makes mistakes, and he was a Murji'ite (murjiʾ)d. 206 AHعَبْدُ الْمَجِيدِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي رَوَّادٍصدوق يخطئ ، وكان مرجئاحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to memorize, then he grew old, so his book became more reliable than his memory.d. 258 AH, or 261 AH, or 263 AHأَبُو الْأَزْهَرِصدوق ، كان يحفظ , ثم كبر فصار كتابه أثبت من حفظهحدثنا
- d. 330 AHأَبُو حَامِدِ بْنُ بِلَالٍأنبأ
- d. 410 AHأَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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