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703. Muḥammad bin Abī Ḥarmalah narrated: "Kuraib informed me that Umm Al-Faḍl bint Al-Ḥārith sent him to Mu'āwiyah in Ash-Shām. He said: 'So I arrived in Ash-Shām and finished her errand, and I saw the crescent of Ramaḍān while I was in Ash-Shām. We saw the crescent on the night of Friday. Then I arrived in Al-Maḍīnah at the end of the month. Ibn 'Abbās was questioning me, then he mentioned the crescent and he said: "When did you see the crescent?" I said: "We saw it on the night of Friday." He said: "Did you see it on the night of Friday?" I said: "The people saw it, so they fasted, and Mu'āwiyah fasted." He said: "But we saw it on the night of Saturday, so we will not stop fasting until we complete thrity days or we
see it.” So I said: “Is not the sighting and fasting of Mu’āwiyah enough for you?” He said: “This is not how the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ ordered us.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū ‘Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Ibn ‘Abbās is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Gharīb Ḥadīth.
This Ḥadīth is acted upon according to the people of knowledge; the people of each land have their own sighting.
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It is obvious from the statement of Imām At-Tirmidhī that the moon sighting is different for each locality or for the people of each city and it is not disagreed, according to Ibn Al-Mundhir Imām Laith, Ash-Shāfi‘ī, Aḥmad, Mālik and Abū Ḥanīfah hold the same opinion.
