Muwatta' Malik 18-9
Sighting the New Moon for Beginning and Ending the Fast of Ramadan
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ
أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَعُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ كَانَا يُصَلِّيَانِ الْمَغْرِبَ حِينَ يَنْظُرَانِ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ الأَسْوَدِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُفْطِرَا ثُمَّ يُفْطِرَانِ بَعْدَ الصَّلاَةِ وَذَلِكَ فِي رَمَضَانَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Ibn Shihāb
- Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Humayd ibn Abd ar-Rahman that Umar ibn al-Khattab and Uthman ibn Affan would pray maghrib when they saw the night darkening, before they broke their fast, and that was during Ramadan.
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Mauquf Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- الواقدي
حميد لم يسمع من عمر رضي الله عنه ولا رآه وسنه وموته يدلان على ذلك ولعله سمع من عثمان
in موطأ مالك, p. 591 - Mubarakpūri
صح أن عمر وعثمان رضي الله عنهما كانا برمضان يصليان المغرب حين ينظران إلى الليل الأسود ثم يفطران بعد الصلاة
in موطأ مالك, p. 591
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 9883Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 9884Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7644al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2140al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8223
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةأن
- Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 95 AH, also said 105 AH, which is an errorحُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة.عن
- 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 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- 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-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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