Jami' at-Tirmidhi 688
What Has Been Related About: Fasting And Breaking Fast Are Based Upon The Sighting (Of The Crescent)
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«لاَ تَصُومُوا قَبْلَ رَمَضَانَ: صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ، وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ۔ فَإِنْ حَالَتْ دُونَهُ غَيَايَةٌ فَأَكْمِلُوا ثَلاَثِينَ يَوْمًا۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿIkrimah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
the Messenger of Allah said: "Do not fast before Ramadan. Fast with its sighting, and break fast with its sighting, and if it is obscured from you due to a cloudy sky, then complete thirty days."
Notes
وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَأَبِي بَكْرَةَ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ؛ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنْهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 688 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| al-Tirmidhi | Soundin جامع الترمذي, p. 705Another source records this grader as “Good-Sound” (hadithunlocked). | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
صحيح لعكرمة عن ابن عباس
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), through the narration of ʿIkrimah from Ibn ʿAbbās.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 705 - al-Tirmidhi
حديث ابن عباس حديث حسن صحيح
in جامع الترمذي, p. 705 - al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن صحيح
machine translationA good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 705
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 2326Sunan an-Nasa'i 2125Sunan an-Nasa'i 2126Musnad Ahmad 3474Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7357
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AHأَبُو الْأَحْوَصِثقة , متقن , صاحب حديثحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
شرح مشكل الآثار
شرح مشكل الآثار
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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