al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8287
✧ One Who Does Not Accept the Sighting of the Crescent of Eid Unless Two Just Witnesses Testify
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ، أَنْبَأَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ، أَنْبَأَ الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، قَالَ:
أَهْلَلْنَا هِلَالَ رَمَضَانَ وَنَحْنُ بِخَانِقِينَ فَمِنَّا مَنْ صَامَ، وَمِنَّا مَنْ أَفْطَرَ، قَالَ: فَجَاءَنَا كِتَابُ عُمَرَ ؓ: إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الْهِلَالَ نَهَارًا فَلَا تُفْطِرُوا حَتَّى يَشْهَدَ شَاهِدَانِ مُسْلِمَانِ أَنَّهُمَا رَأَيَاهُ بِالْأَمْسِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq Anbaʾ Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Anbaʾ Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn Anbaʾ al-Aʿmash
- Abū Wāʾil
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We sighted the crescent of Ramadan while we were at Khāniqīn. Some of us fasted and some of us did not. He said: Then a letter from ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us: If you see the crescent during the day, do not break your fast until two Muslim witnesses testify that they saw it the day before.
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- Dāraquṭnī
قال محمد بن علي قلت لأبي نعيم سمع ابن أبي ليلى من عمر قال لا أدري قال محمد بن علي قلت ليحيى بن معين سمع ابن أبي ليلى من عمر فلم يثبت ذلك عبد الأعلى هو ابن عامر الثعلبي غيره أثبت منه وحديث أبي وائل أصح إسنادا عن عمر منه رواه الأعمش ومنصور عن أبي وائل
machine translationMuḥammad b. ʿAlī said: I asked Abū Nuʿaym, "Did Ibn Abī Laylā hear from ʿUmar?" He said, "I do not know." Muḥammad b. ʿAlī said: I asked Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, "Did Ibn Abī Laylā hear from ʿUmar?" He did not confirm that. ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, who is Ibn ʿĀmir al-Thaʿlabī, others are more reliable (athbat) than him, and the ḥadīth of Abū Wāʾil from ʿUmar is sounder (aṣaḥḥ) in its chain than his. It was narrated by al-Aʿmash and Manṣūr from Abū Wāʾil.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 8287 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
بإسناد صحيح
machine translationWith a sound chain (isnād ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 8287 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
حديث أبي وائل أصح من حديث النخعي لأنه متصل وحديث النخعي منقطع
machine translationThe hadith of Abū Wāʾil is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) than the hadith of al-Nakhaʿī, because it is connected (muttaṣil), while the hadith of al-Nakhaʿī is broken (munqaṭiʿ).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 8287 - ابن الملقن
إسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 8287
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبجاءنا كتاب
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسأنبأ
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 206 AH, or 207 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍصدوقأنبأ
- trustworthy (thiqah), knowledgeable (ʿārif)d. 268 AH, or 272 AHأَبُو أَحْمَدَ : مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِثقة عارفحدثنا
- d. 344 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ : مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَأنبأ
- d. 414 AHأَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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