Muwatta' Malik 18-31
Sighting the New Moon for Beginning and Ending the Fast of Ramadan
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَضْرِبُ نَحْرَهُ وَيَنْتِفُ شَعْرَهُ وَيَقُولُ هَلَكَ الأَبْعَدُ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَمَا ذَاكَ فَقَالَ أَصَبْتُ أَهْلِي وَأَنَا صَائِمٌ فِي رَمَضَانَ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هَلْ تَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ تُعْتِقَ رَقَبَةً فَقَالَ لاَ فَقَالَ هَلْ تَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ تُهْدِيَ بَدَنَةً قَالَ لاَ قَالَ فَاجْلِسْ فَأُتِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِعَرَقِ تَمْرٍ فَقَالَ خُذْ هَذَا فَتَصَدَّقْ بِهِ فَقَالَ مَا أَحَدٌ أَحْوَجَ مِنِّي فَقَالَ كُلْهُ وَصُمْ يَوْمًا مَكَانَ مَا أَصَبْتَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- ʿAṭāʾ b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khurāsānī
- Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ata ibn Abdullah al-Khurasani that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, "A bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ beating his breast and tearing out his hair and saying, 'I am destroyed.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Why is that?', and he said, 'I had intercourse with my wife while fasting in Ramadan.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked him, 'Are you able to free a slave?', and the man said, 'No.' Then he asked him, 'Are you able to give away a camel?', and the man replied, 'No.' He said, 'Sit own,' and someone brought a large basket of dates to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he said to the man, 'Take this and give it away as sadaqa.' The man said, 'There is no one more needy than me,' and (the Messenger of Allah ﷺ), said, 'Eat them, and fast one day for the day when you had intercourse.' " Malik said that Ata said that he had asked Said ibn al-Musayyab how many dates there were in that basket, and he said, "Between fifteen and twenty sas.''
Notes
قَالَ مَالِكٌ قَالَ عَطَاءٌ فَسَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ كَمْ فِي ذَلِكَ الْعَرَقِ مِنَ التَّمْرِ فَقَالَ مَا بَيْنَ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ صَاعًا إِلَى عِشْرِينَ
machine translationMālik said: ʿAṭāʾ said: I asked Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, "How many dates are in that basket (ʿaraq)?" He said: "Between fifteen ṣāʿs and twenty."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
مرسل
machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ)
in موطأ مالك, p. 612 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
ما ذكر في هذا الحديث محفوظ من رواية الثقات الأثبات إلا هذه الجملة قال فهل تستطيع أن تهدي بدنة فإنها غير محفوظة
machine translationWhat is mentioned in this hadith is preserved (maḥfūẓ) in the narration of the trustworthy and reliable narrators, except for this sentence: "He said: Are you able to donate a camel (badanah)?" This is not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).
in موطأ مالك, p. 612 - Zarqānī
عن سعيد بن المسيب أنه قال كذب عطاء الخراساني ما حدثته إنما بلغني عن النبي
machine translationFrom Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, that he said: "ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī lied. I did not narrate it to him; it only reached me from the Prophet."
in موطأ مالك, p. 612 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هذا الحديث في الموطأ عند جماعة الرواة مرسلا وقد روي معناه متصلا من وجوه صحاح ما ذكرنا في هذا الحديث فمحفوظ من حديث أبي هريرة وحديث عائشة من راوية الثقات الأثبات
machine translationIn the Muwaṭṭaʾ, this hadith is narrated as a mursal report by the group of narrators. Its meaning has also been narrated in a connected (muttaṣil) form through sound routes. What we mentioned in this hadith is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah and the hadith of ʿĀʾishah, through the narration of the trustworthy and reliable narrators.
in موطأ مالك, p. 612
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
وقد روى القاسم بن عاصم البصري ويقال فيه التميمي ويقال الكلبي وليس بشيء
machine translationAl-Qāsim b. ʿĀṣim al-Baṣrī also narrated it; he is called al-Tamīmī and also called al-Kalbī, and he is of no account.
in موطأ مالك, p. 612 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
المحفوظ أنه ظاهر من امرأته ثم وقع عليها لا أنه كان ذلك منه في رمضان
machine translationWhat is preserved (maḥfūẓ) is that he made ẓihār from his wife and then had intercourse with her, not that this happened on his part in Ramadan.
in موطأ مالك, p. 612 - Ishbīlī
يصح مرسلا
machine translationIt is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) as a mursal report.
in موطأ مالك, p. 612
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2168Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2170al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8139al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8159al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3104
Narrators
- 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 AHسَعِيد بْن الْمُسَيِّبأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), errs often, and narrates mursal, and practises concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH, or 135 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّصدوق يهم كثيرا ، ويرسل ، ويدلسعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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