Sunan Abi Dawud
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Chapter 14 · Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)الشَّهْرِ يَكُونُ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ
حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ، لَا نَكْتُبُ وَلَا نَحْسُبُ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا . وَخَنَسَ سُلَيْمَانُ أُصْبُعَهُ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ يَعْنِي تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ وَثَلَاثِينَ.
Translation
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The Arabic text and the translations come from our previous collection: English from hadithapi.com, German and Turkish machine-translated (Gemini) and unreviewed. A new translation from the Arabic with the chain of narration will follow.
The Month May Be Twenty-Nine Days
The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: We ae an unlettered nation, we cannot write nor calculate. The month is thus, and thus, and thus.'" (one of the narrators) Sulaiman closed one of his fingers the third time, indicating that a month is twenty-nine days, and (sometimes) thirty.