The Month May Be Twenty-Nine Days
Darussalam · Volume 3
14. THE BOOK OF FASTINGSunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 2319 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 296
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صحيح
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(قلت: إسناده صحيح على شرط الشيخين. وأخرجاه)
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2319. It was reported from Sa'eed bin 'Amr, meaning Ibn Sa'eed bin Al-'Ās, from Ibn 'Umar, who said: "Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: 'We are an unlettered nation, we cannot write nor calculate. The month is thus, and thus, and thus.'" (One of the narrators) Sulaimān closed one of his fingers the third time, indicating that a month is twenty-nine days, and (sometimes) thirty. (Sahīh)
2319 - حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لَا نَكْتُبُ، وَلَا نَحْسُبُ، الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا»، وَخَنَسَ سُلَيْمَانُ أُصْبُعَهُ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ، يَعْنِي تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ وَثَلَاثِينَ
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"We are an illiterate nation" may be understood in the historical context that reading and writing was rare in the Arab society of those days. Very few people knew it.