Sahih al-Bukhari 1909
"Start observing Saum on seeing the crescent of Ramadan, and stop on seeing the crescent (of Shawwal)."
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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ؛ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ؛ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ؛ قَالَ؛ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ يَقُولُ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَوْ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ ﷺ
«صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ فَإِنْ غُبِّيَ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَكْمِلُوا عِدَّةَ شَعْبَانَ ثَلاَثِينَ۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ādam
- Shuʿbah
- Muḥammad b. Ziyād
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ Aw
- Abū al-Qāsim ﷺ
that the Prophet ﷺ said or he said Abū al-Qasim said, "˹Start˺ fasting ˹the month˺ upon seeing it (the moon), and break ˹fasting the month˺ upon seeing it. If it is hidden for you (as a result of an overcast at the start of the month), then complete thirty days of Shaʿbān."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 653{ فَأَكْمِلُوا عِدَّةَ شَعْبَانَ ثَلَاثِينَ }.
- Misykatul Mashabih 1970وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ فَإِنْ غم عَلَيْكُم فَأَكْمِلُوا عِدَّةَ شَعْبَانَ ثَلَاثِينَ»
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 2118صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاقْدُرُوا ثَلاَثِينَ
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 2124صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ ثَلاَثِينَ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1900Sahih al-Bukhari 1906Sahih al-Bukhari 1907Sahih Muslim 1080cal-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2645
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 الصحابةسمعت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), sometimes narrates mursald. between 121 AH and 130 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ثبت ربما أرسلحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AHآدَمُثقة عابدحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
شرح مشكل الآثار
شرح مشكل الآثار
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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