Sahih Muslim 1679a

Translation

Time has completed a cycle and come to the state of the day when Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year is constituted of twelve months, of which four are sacred; three of them consecutive, viz. Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l- Hijja and Muharram, and also Rajab the month of Mudar which comes between Jumada and Sha'ban. He (the Holy Prophet) then said: which month is this? We said Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the narrator) said: He (the Holy Prophet) remained silent for some time until we thought that he would give it a name other than that (by which it was known). He said: Is it not Dha'l-Hijja? We said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Which city is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the Holy Prophety remained silent until we thought that he would give it another name. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Is it not the Balda (the city of Mecca)? We said: Yes. He said: What day is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the Holy Prophet) remained silent until we thought that he would give it another name. He said: Is it not the Day of Sacrifice? We said: Messenger of Allah. yes. Thereupon he said: Your blood, your property (Muhammad, one of the narrators, said: I think, he also said this) and your honour are sacred to you like the sacredness of this day of yours, in this city of yours, and in this month of yours. You will soon meet your Lord and He will ask you about your deeds. So do not turn after me unbelievers (or misguided), some of you striking the necks of the others. Behold I let him who is present convey to him who is absent, for many a one whom a message is conveyed has a more retentive memory than one who hears. He again said: Behold! have I not delivered (the message) to you? This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters, but with a slight variation of words.

Notes

• قَالَ ابْنُ حَبِيبٍ فِي رِوَايَتِهِ وَرَجَبُ مُضَرَ وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَلاَ تَرْجِعُوا بَعْدِي

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1741Sahih al-Bukhari 7078Sunan Ibn Majah 233al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15948al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4806

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AH, or: 51 AH, or: 52 AH, or: 59 AH, also said: 53 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 96 AH
   ابْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Sīrīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
   ابْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
   عن
4. 4
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed three years before his deathd. 194 AH or 195 AH or 184 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ الثَّقَفِيُّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyā b. Ḥabīb b. ʿArabī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, also said: after 250 AH
   وَيَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الْحَارِثِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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