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كتاب الصيام
Fasting
" إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الْهِلاَلَ فَصُومُوا وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَأَفْطِرُوا فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَصُومُوا ثَلاَثِينَ يَوْمًا "
“When you see the new crescent then fast, and when you see it then stop fasting. If it is cloudy then fast thirty days.”
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- Hadith 1654
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- Hadith 1656
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- Hadith 1653
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- Hadith 1657
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- Hadith 1652
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- Hadith 1658
"(The months in which) We fasted twenty-nine days at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), were more than (the months in which) we fasted thirty days.