al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1224
✧ The sign that the crescent belongs to its night
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أَبُو يَعْلَى، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الرَّسْعَنِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، ثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِذَا غَابَ الْهِلَالُ قَبْلَ الشَّفَقِ فَهُوَ لِلَيْلَتِهِ، وَإِذَا غَابَ بَعْدَ الشَّفَقِ، فَهُوَ لِلَيْلَتَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Rasʿanī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ
- Baqiyyah
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar
- Nāfiʿ
- Ibn ʿUmar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ If the crescent sets before the twilight, then it is for its night; and if it sets after the twilight, then it is for two nights.
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- Dāraquṭnī
ولا يصح ذلك وكل من رواه ضعيف
in المطالب العالية, p. 1224
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 للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AHنَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), he narrated much from weak and unknown narrators and was deemed weak because of that, to the point that Ibn Numayr attributed lying to him. And Ibn Maʿīn deemed him trustworthyd. 202 AH, or 203 AH, or 230 AH, or 233 AHعُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ، أكثر الرواية عن الضعفاء والمجاهيل فضعف بسبب ذلك حتى نسبه ابن نمير إلى الكذب . وقد وثقه ابن معينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but made many mistakes; reliable (thabt) in his written book; there was heedlessness (ghaflah) in himd. 222 AH, or 223 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍصدوق كثير الغلط ، ثبت في كتابه ، وكانت فيه غفلةحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), ḥāfiẓd. between 251 AH and 260 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الرَّسْعَنِيُّصدوق حافظحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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