Sunan Ibn Majah 1655
What was narrated concerning: “Fast when you see it (the new crescent) and stop fasting when you see it”
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَرْوَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الْهِلاَلَ فَصُومُوا وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَأَفْطِرُوا فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَصُومُوا ثَلاَثِينَ يَوْمًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Marwān al-ʿUthmānī
- Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd
- al-Zuhrī
- Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“When you see the new crescent then fast, and when you see it then stop fasting. If it is cloudy then fast thirty days.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1350 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
فروي من وجوه من حديث سعيد بن المسيب وأبي سلمة والأعرج ومحمد بن زياد وغيرهم وهي ثابتة وسائر الطرق في هذا الحديث كلها حسان عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationIt is narrated through several routes: from the hadith of Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, Abū Salamah, al-Aʿraj, Muḥammad b. Ziyād and others, and it is established. All the other routes of this hadith are good (ḥasan), from the Prophet ﷺ.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1720
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 الصحابةعن
- One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادححدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. end of 240 AH, or the beginning of the year 241 AHأَبُو مَرْوَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
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