Sahih Ibn Hibban 3458

Translation

✧ «Do not anticipate the month until you see the crescent or complete the count. Then fast until you see the crescent or complete the count.»

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  قيل الصواب فيه عن ربعي عن رجل من الصحابة مبهم ولا يقدح ذلك في صحته

  machine translationIt is said that the correct version is from Ribʿī from an unnamed man among the Companions, and that does not harm its soundness. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3463
• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  ليس ذكر حذيفة فيه بمحفوظ

  machine translationThe mention of Ḥudhayfah in it is not preserved (maḥfūẓ). Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3463
• ابن عبد الهادي الحنبلي

  قال ابن الجوزي وحديث حذيفة هذا ضعفه أحمد ثم هو محمول على حال الصحو لأنه لم يذكر فيه الغيم أو على ما إذا غم هلال رمضان وهلال شوال كما سبق قال في التنقيح وهذا وهم منه فإن أحمد إنما أراد أن الصحيح قول من قال عن رجل من أصحاب النبي عليه السلام وإن تسمية حذيفة وهم من جرير فظن ابن الجوزي أن هذا تضعيف من أحمد للحديث وأنه مرسل وليس هو بمرسل بل متصل إما عن حذيفة وإما عن رجل من أصحاب النبي عليه السلام وجهالة الصحابي غير قادحة في صحة الحديث قال وبالجملة فالحديث صحيح ورواته ثقات محتج بهم في الصحيح

  machine translationIbn al-Jawzī said: This ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah was graded weak (ḍaʿīf) by Aḥmad. It is then taken to refer to a clear sky, since it makes no mention of clouds, or to the case where the crescent of Ramaḍān and the crescent of Shawwāl were both obscured, as mentioned before. In al-Tanqīḥ it is said: This is a mistake on his part, for Aḥmad only meant that the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) view is that of those who said "from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ", and that naming Ḥudhayfah is an error from Jarīr. Ibn al-Jawzī thought this was Aḥmad declaring the ḥadīth weak and that it is disconnected (mursal). But it is not mursal; rather it is connected (muttaṣil), either from Ḥudhayfah or from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and the anonymity of a Companion does not harm the soundness of a ḥadīth. He said: In sum, the ḥadīth is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt), relied upon in the Ṣaḥīḥ. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3463

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2327Sunan an-Nasa'i 2127

Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān

   An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an error
   حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقين
   عن
2. 2
   Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh al-ʿAbsī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AH
   رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥusayn b. Idrīs al-Anṣārī

   d. end of 300 AH, or 301 AH
   الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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