Kuraib reported that Umm Fadl, daughter of Harith, sent him (Fadl, i.e. her son) to Mu'awiya in Syria. I (Fadl) arrived in Syria, and did the needful for her. It was there in Syria that the month of Ramadan commenced. I saw the new moon (of Ramadan) on Friday. I then came back to Medina at the end of the month. Abdullah b. 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) asked me (about the new moon of Ramadan) and said: When did you see it? I said: We saw it on the night of Friday. He said: (Did) you see it yourself? I said: Yes, and the people also saw it and they fasted and Mu'awiya also fasted, whereupon he said: But we saw it on Saturday night. So we will continue to fast till we complete thirty (fasts) or we see it (the new moon of Shawwal). I said: Is the sighting of the moon by Mu'awiya not valid for you? He said: No; this is how the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) has commanded us. Yahya b. Yahya was in doubt (whether the word used in the narration by Kuraib) was Naktafi or Taktafi.
Read More..Abu'l-Bakhtari reported: We went out to perform Umra and when we encamped in the valley of Nakhla, we tried to see the new moon. Some of the people said: It was three nights old, and others (said) that it was two nights old. We then met Ibn 'Abbas and told him we had seen the new moon, but that some of the people said it was three nights old and others that it was two nights old. He asked on which night we had seen it; and when we told him we had seen it on such and such night, he said the Prophet of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: Verily Allah deferred it till the time it is seen, so it is to be reckoned from the night you saw it.
Read More..Abu'l-Bakhtari reported: We saw the new moon of Ramadan as we were at Dhit-i-'Irq. We sent a man to Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) to ask him (whether the sighting of a small moon had something of the nature of defect in it). Upon this Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with both of them) said that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: Verily Allah deferred its sight, but if (the new moon) is hidden from you, then, complete its number (thirty).
Read More..The son of Abu Bakra reported it on the authority of his father that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: The two months of 'Id, Ramadan and Dhu'l-Hijja (are not incomplete).
Read More..Abd ar-Rahman b. Abu Bakra reported on the authority of Abu Bakra that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: The months of 'Id are not incomplete. And in the hadith narrated by Khalid (the words are): The months, of 'Id are Ramadan and Dhu'l-Hijja.
Read More..Adi b. Hatim (Allah be pleased with him) reported that when (this verse) was revealed: Until the white streak of the dawn becomes distinct from the dark streak (ii. 187) Adi b. Hatim said: Messenger of Allah, verily I keep underneath my pillow two strings, one white and the other black, by which I distinguish night from dawn. Upon this the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Your pillow seems to be very large. For the word khait implies the blackness of the night and the whiteness of the dawn.
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