Sunan an-Nasa'i 2128

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'When you see the crescent then fast, and when you see it, then stop fasting. If it is too cloudy then complete Shaban as thirty days, unless you see the crescent before that, then fast Ramadan as thirty days, unless you see the new crescent before that."'

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What scholars said about it

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• Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

  مرسلا

  machine translationAs a mursal report. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 2129
• ابن عبد الهادي الحنبلي

  قال ابن الجوزي وحديث حذيفة هذا ضعفه أحمد ثم هو محمول على حال الصحو لأنه لم يذكر فيه الغيم أو على ما إذا غم هلال رمضان وهلال شوال كما سبق قال في التنقيح وهذا وهم منه فإن أحمد إنما أراد أن الصحيح قول من قال عن رجل من أصحاب النبي عليه السلام وإن تسمية حذيفة وهم من جرير فظن ابن الجوزي أن هذا تضعيف من أحمد للحديث وأنه مرسل وليس هو بمرسل بل متصل إما عن حذيفة وإما عن رجل من أصحاب النبي عليه السلام وجهالة الصحابي غير قادحة في صحة الحديث قال وبالجملة فالحديث صحيح ورواته ثقات محتج بهم في الصحيح

  machine translationIbn al-Jawzī said: This ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah was graded weak (ḍaʿīf) by Aḥmad. It is then taken to refer to a clear sky, since it makes no mention of clouds, or to the case where the crescent of Ramaḍān and the crescent of Shawwāl were both obscured, as mentioned before. In al-Tanqīḥ it is said: This is a mistake on his part, for Aḥmad only meant that the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) view is that of those who said "from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ", and that naming Ḥudhayfah is an error from Jarīr. Ibn al-Jawzī thought this was Aḥmad declaring the ḥadīth weak and that it is disconnected (mursal). But it is not mursal; rather it is connected (muttaṣil), either from Ḥudhayfah or from a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and the anonymity of a Companion does not harm the soundness of a ḥadīth. He said: In sum, the ḥadīth is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt), relied upon in the Ṣaḥīḥ. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 2129
• al-Albani

  صحيح [لغيره]

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) [through other chains (li-ghayrihi)] Report a problem

  in صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 2127

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2321al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15270al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2450

Narrators

1. 1
   Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh al-ʿAbsī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AH
   رِبْعِيّ بْن حِرَاش العَبْسِيّثقة عابد
   عن
2. 2
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥajjāj

   Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AH
   الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ أَرْطَاةَصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليس
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥibbān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH or 232 AH or 233 AH
   حِبَّانُثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Ḥātim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. close to 300 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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