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English translation
687. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Count the (the appearances of) the crescent of Sha'bān for Ramaḍān." (Da'if)
Abū 'Eisā said: We do not know of the Hadīth of Abū Hurairah to be like this except from the narration of Abū Mu'āwiyah. What is correct is what is reported from Muḥammad bin 'Amr, from Abū Salamah from Abū Hurairah that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Do not precede the month of Ramaḍān by fasting a day or two days." This has been reported by
Yāhya bin Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurairah from the Prophet ﷺ, and it is similar to the narration of Muḥammad bin 'Amr Al-Laithī.
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Footnotes
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[1] "Because the one who fasted the day of doubt did not fast a day of Ramaḍān with certainty, so if it appeared later that it was a day of Ramaḍān then he must make up for it by fasting a day in its place." Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
Commentary
'The day of doubt' is the thirtieth of Sha'bān, when the sky is overcast and cloudy the moon cannot be sighted, which causes doubt that perhaps it is a day of Ramaḍān, because the people could not see the moon, if a person fasts with the intention of fasting Ramaḍān, this fast is Makrūh Tahrimī (nearly forbidden) according to the four A'immah, majority Companions and the successors.
