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Sahih Muslim
كتاب الصيام
The Book of Fasting
" الشَّهْرُ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَكَذَا "
The month is thus, and thus, and thus, and he flapped his hands with all their fingers twice. but at the third turn, folded his right thumb or left thumb (in order to give an idea of twenty-nine).
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