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"...And eat and drink until the white thread (light) of dawn appears to you distinct from the black thread (darkness of the night)..." (V.2:187)

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Darussalam · Volume 6

65 - THE BOOK OF COMMENTARY:(Interpretation of the Qur'an)

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الحديث: 4511 ¦ الجزء: 6 ¦ الصفحة: 26

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4511. Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd: The Verse : "...And eat and drink until the white thread appears to you distinct from the black thread..." was revealed, but 'of dawn' was not revealed (along with it). So some men, when intending to observe Saum (fast), used to tie their legs, one with white thread and the other with black thread and would keep on eating till they could distinguish one thread from the other. Then Allāh revealed '... of dawn,' whereupon they understood that it meant the night and the day.

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4511 - حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو غَسَّانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو حَازِمٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ: وَأُنْزِلَتْ: {وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ} [البقرة: 187] وَلَمْ يُنْزَلْ: {مِنَ الفَجْرِ} [البقرة: 187] " وَكَانَ رِجَالٌ إِذَا أَرَادُوا الصَّوْمَ رَبَطَ أَحَدُهُمْ فِي رِجْلَيْهِ الخَيْطَ الأَبْيَضَ وَالخَيْطَ الأَسْوَدَ، وَلاَ يَزَالُ يَأْكُلُ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُ رُؤْيَتُهُمَا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ بَعْدَهُ: {مِنَ الفَجْرِ} [البقرة: 187] «فَعَلِمُوا أَنَّمَا يَعْنِي اللَّيْلَ مِنَ النَّهَارِ»

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