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ahmad:5411 – Muʾammal > Sufyān > Ismāʿīl b. Umayyah > Nāfiʿ > Suʾil Ibn ʿUmar > Ṣawm Yawm ʿArafah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ , Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman did not fast it.  

أحمد:٥٤١١ – حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ سُئِلَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ صَوْمِ يَوْمِ عَرَفَةَ؟ فَقَالَ

لَمْ يَصُمْهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَلَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَلَا عُمَرُ وَلَا عُثْمَانُ  

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ahmad:14846 – ʿAbd al-Quddūs b. Bakr b. Khunays > Ḥajjāj > Abū al-Zubayr > Suʾil Jābir ʿAmmā Yudʿá Lilmayyit

[Machine] "What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abu Bakr, and Umar have permitted for us."  

أحمد:١٤٨٤٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ بَكْرِ بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ أَخْبَرَنَا حَجَّاجٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ سُئِلَ جَابِرٌ عَمَّا يُدْعَى لِلْمَيِّتِ؟ فَقَالَ

مَا أَبَاحَ لَنَا فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَلَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَلَا عُمَرُ  

ahmad:5948 – Surayj > ʿAbdullāh > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] I have never fasted on the day of Arafah, nor did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ nor Abu Bakr nor Umar.  

أحمد:٥٩٤٨ – حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

مَا صُمْتُ عَرَفَةَ قَطُّ وَلَا صَامَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَلَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَلَا عُمَرُ  

nasai-kubra:2838 – Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān Abū al-Jawzāʾ al-Baṣrī > al-Maʾmmal b. Ismāʿīl Kathīr al-Khaṭaʾ > Sufyān > Ismāʿīl b. Umayyah > Nāfiʿ > Suʾil Ibn ʿUmar > Ṣawm Yawm ʿArafah Biʿarafah

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ , Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman did not fast him (referring to someone or something)."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٨٣٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ أَبُو الْجَوْزَاءِ البَصْرِيٌّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْمَؤمَّلُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ كَثِيرُ الْخَطَأِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ سُئِلَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ صَوْمِ يَوْمِ عَرَفَةَ بِعَرَفَةَ فَقَالَ

«لَمْ يَصُمْهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَلَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَلَا عُمَرُ وَلَا عُثْمَانُ»