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ibnmajah:1657Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr > Muḥammad b. Bishr > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid > Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ from his father

“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.”  

ابن ماجة:١٦٥٧حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

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


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muslim:1080kSahl b. ʿUthmān > Ziyād b. ʿAbdullāh al-Bakkāʾī > ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr > Mūsá b. Ṭalḥah > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

The month (of Ramadan) is thus and thus, and thus. i.e. ten, ten and nine.  

مسلم:١٠٨٠kوَحَدَّثَنَا سَهْلُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَكَّائِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا عَشْرًا وَعَشْرًا وَتِسْعًا  

muslim:1086bal-Qāsim b. Zakariyyāʾ > Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī > Zāʾidah > Ismāʿīl > Muḥammad b. Saʿd from his father

Tho month is thus and thus, and thus, i. e. ten, ten and nine.  

مسلم:١٠٨٦bوَحَدَّثَنِي الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاءَ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا عَشْرًا وَعَشْرًا وَتِسْعًا مَرَّةً  

ahmad:1596al-Ṭālqānī > Ibn al-Mubārak > Ismāʿīl > Muḥammad b. Saʿd from his father

“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.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1657)   

أحمد:١٥٩٦حَدَّثَنَا الطَّالْقَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا يَعْنِي تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ