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nasai-kubra:2458Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd > Ismāʿīl > Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'The month is like this and like this and like this." (One of the narrators) Muhammad bin 'Ubaid clapped his hands three time to demonstrate it, then he withheld his left thumb the third time. Yahya bin Saeed said to Ismail (One of the narrators): "Form his father?' He said: "No." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2137)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٤٥٨أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا» وَصَفَّقَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ بِيَدَيْهِ يَتْبَعُهَا ثَلَاثًا ثُمَّ قَبَضَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ الْإِبْهَامَ فِي الْيُسْرَى  


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nasai:2137Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd > Ismāʿīl > Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'The month is like this and like this and like this." (One of the narrators) Muhammad bin 'Ubaid clapped his hands three time to demonstrate it, then he withheld his left thumb the third time. Yahya bin Saeed said to Ismail (One of the narrators): "Form his father?' He said: "No."  

النسائي:٢١٣٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَصَفَّقَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ بِيَدَيْهِ يَنْعَتُهَا ثَلاَثًا ثُمَّ قَبَضَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ الإِبْهَامَ فِي الْيُسْرَى قَالَ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قُلْتُ لإِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ لاَ  

bayhaqi:7930Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Shaybānī > Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh > Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd > ʿĀṣim b. Muḥammad from his father > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The month is like this, like this, and like this," gesturing three times with his hands, then he closed his thumb on the third time. So, if it is cloudy for you, complete thirty (days).  

البيهقي:٧٩٣٠مَا أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ ثنا عَاصِمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا ثَلَاثُ مَرَّاتٍ بِيَدَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَبَضَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ إِبْهَامَهُ فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَتِمُّوا ثَلَاثِينَ