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(18). 2971. 'Adī bin Hātim narrated: "I asked the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ about the fast, he said: 'Until the white (light) thread of dawn appears distinct to you from the black thread (of night)'" - he said: "So I took two ropes, one white and the other black to look at them. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to me" - it was something that Sufyān (a sub narrator) did not remember - so he said: "It is only the night and the day." (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Sahih.
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Commentary
When 'Adī bin Hātim embraced Islam, the Prophet ﷺ recited to him the Qur'anic Verse mentioned in this Hadīth, who understood its literal meaning.
He put a black string and a white one under his pillow at night, and slept. He kept looking at both strings to find out the time to end the predawn meal. What a long and wide pillow was it that hid the darkness of night and the whiteness under itself! The Prophet ﷺ then explained, 'This Verse means the darkness of night and the glow of morning'.
