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bayhaqi:8200Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī > Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥusayn > Ādam > Shuʿbah > al-Aswad b. Qays > Saʿīd b. ʿUmarw > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "We are an illiterate nation, we do not write or calculate the months like this, this, this, meaning thirty. Then he said this, this, this while bending his thumb, meaning twenty-nine. He said once thirty and once twenty-nine."  

البيهقي:٨٢٠٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ثنا آدَمُ ثنا شُعْبَةُ ثنا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ عُمَرٍو يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لَا نَكْتُبُ وَلَا نَحْسُبُ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا يَعْنِي ثَلَاثِينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَضَمَّ إِبْهَامَهُ يَعْنِي تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ يَقُولُ مَرَّةً ثَلَاثِينَ وَمَرَّةً تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ آدَمَ بْنِ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ وَأَخْرَجَهُ مُسْلِمٌ مِنْ حَدِيثِ غُنْدَرٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ