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bayhaqi:20022Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Abū Nuʿaym > Abū Ḥafṣ Yazīd b. Kaysān Suʾil Ṭāwus > ʿIndah > a man Ḥalaf > Lā Yukallim a man Zamān

[Machine] The time is either two or three months unless their respective durations are specified differently, and the difference in meaning of "the time" in its different contexts is evidence that "the time" does not have a specific definition in its absolute sense, and likewise, time, and Allah knows best.  

البيهقي:٢٠٠٢٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا أَبُو حَفْصٍ يَزِيدُ بْنُ كَيْسَانَ سُئِلَ طَاوُسٌ وَأَنَا عِنْدَهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ حَلَفَ أَنْ لَا يُكَلِّمَ رَجُلًا زَمَانًا؟ قَالَ

الزَّمَانُ شَهْرَانِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٌ مَا لَمْ يُوَقِّتْ أَجَلًا اخْتِلَافُهُمْ فِي الْحِينِ وَاخْتِلَافُ مَعْنَى الْحِينِ فِي مَوَاضِعِهِ دَلِيلٌ عَلَى أَنْ لَيْسَ لَلْحِينِ غَايَةٌ عِنْدَ الْإِطْلَاقِ وَكَذَلِكَ الزَّمَانُ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ