Sahih al-Bukhari 1913
"We neither write nor know accounts."
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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا الأَسْوَدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ ابْنَ عُمَرَ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
«إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لاَ نَكْتُبُ وَلاَ نَحْسُبُ۔ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا - يَعْنِي مَرَّةً تِسْعَةً وَعِشْرِينَ وَمَرَّةً ثَلاَثِينَ۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ādam
- Shuʿbah
- al-Aswad b. Qays
- Saʿīd b. ʿAmr
- Ibn ʿUmar
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "We are an illiterate nation; we neither write, nor know accounts. The month is like this and this, i.e. sometimes of twenty nine days and sometimes of thirty."
Notes
وَهَكَذَا ". يَعْنِي مَرَّةً تِسْعَةً وَعِشْرِينَ، وَمَرَّةً ثَلاَثِينَ
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2138Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2120al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8025al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8026
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 للأثرسمع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍوثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 and 140 AHالْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍثقةحدثنا
- 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
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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