al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8409
✧ The elderly man who cannot fast but can afford expiation may break the fast and feed
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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي، وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو صَالِحٍ، حَدَّثَنِي مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ: أَنَّ أَبَا حَمْزَةَ حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ: أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ:
مَنْ أَدْرَكَهُ الْكِبَرُ فَلَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ صِيَامَ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَعَلَيْهِ لِكُلِّ يَوْمٍ مُدٌّ مِنْ قَمْحٍ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī and ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣaghānī
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Ḥamzah
- Sulaymān b. Mūsá
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
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Whoever is overtaken by old age and is unable to fast the month of Ramadan, then he must give, for each day, a mudd of wheat.
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Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةسمع
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AHسُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 140 AHأَبَا حَمْزَةَصدوق له أوهامحدثه
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, said by Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, known as Ibn al-Qawwās, 158 AH, 168 AH, 172 AH, said by Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, author of the History of al-Andalusمُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍصدوق له أوهامحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq) but made many mistakes; reliable (thabt) in his written book; there was heedlessness (ghaflah) in himd. 222 AH, or 223 AHأَبُو صَالِحٍصدوق كثير الغلط ، ثبت في كتابه ، وكانت فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 270 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ : مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 421 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِيأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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