What Was Narrated Concerning: "The Month Is Twenty-Nine (Days)."
Darussalam · Volume 2
The Chapters On What Has Been Narrated Concerning FastingSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 1656 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 530
Source no. 1656 · Volume 4 · Page 156
Sahih
صحيح، صحيح أبي داود (٢٠٠٨)
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1656. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'How much of the month has passed?' We said: "Twenty-two (days), and there are eight left." The Messenger of Allâh 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." (Sahih)
1656 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «كَمْ مَضَى مِنَ الشَّهْرِ؟» قَالَ: قُلْنَا: اثْنَانِ وَعِشْرُونَ، وَبَقِيَتْ ثَمَانٍ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا، وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا، وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا، ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، وَأَمْسَكَ وَاحِدَةً»
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He demonstrated the counting with ten fingers twice, and a third time with nine fingers, and made it clear that a month is also of twenty-nine days; it is not necessarily thirty days. There is no decrease in reward for the fast of a month in case of it being twenty-nine days.