‘How much of the month has passed?” We said: “Twenty-two (days), and there are eight left.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The month is like that, and the month is like that, (and the month is like that), three times, and he withheld one finger the last time.”  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَمْ مَضَى مِنَ الشَّهْرِ؟ قَالَ قُلْنَا اثْنَانِ وَعِشْرُونَ وَبَقِيَتْ ثَمَانٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ وَأَمْسَكَ وَاحِدَةً  

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘The month is like that and like that and like that,’ and he showed nine fingers on the third time to indicate twenty-nine.”  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَعَقَدَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ  

"(The months in which) We fasted twenty-nine days at the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, were more than (the months in which) we fasted thirty days.  

مَا صُمْنَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِمَّا صُمْنَا ثَلاَثِينَ