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The Book of Fasting

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The choice between fasting and not fasting when travelling

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ENGLISH

Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

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.

ARABIC

‏ إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لاَ نَكْتُبُ وَلاَ نَحْسُبُ الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا - وَعَقَدَ الإِبْهَامَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ - وَالشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا ‏