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Sahih Muslim
كتاب الصيام
The Book of Fasting
" إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لاَ نَكْتُبُ وَلاَ نَحْسُبُ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا - وَعَقَدَ الإِبْهَامَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ - وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا "
We are an unlettered people who can neither write nor count. The month is thus, and thus. folding his thumb when he said it the third time.
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