Commentary on Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim-07a
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The reader: "Also, it is narrated from Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Sunan an-Nasa'i 2140Sahih (Darussalam) "
The Shaykh : We do not write and we do not write
The reader: We write
The Shaykh : Yes
The reader: "Sunan an-Nasa'i 2140Sahih (Darussalam) That is, sometimes twenty-nine days, and sometimes thirty days. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated it.
So He described this nation by its abandonment of writing and calculation, which other nations do in their times of worship and festivals, and He referred them to visual observation, where He said in a hadith other than this one:Sahih Muslim 1081b, and in a narration: meaning from the crescent to the crescent.
And this is evidence for what the Muslims have agreed upon—except for some of the later scholars who deviated, who are in opposition to the consensus that preceded them—that the times for fasting, breaking the fast, and the rites of pilgrimage are established by visual observation when possible, not by writing and calculation, which the non-Arabs follow, such as the Romans, the Persians, the Copts, the Indians, and the People of the Book, namely the Jews and the Christians.
It has been narrated from more than one scholar of knowledge that the People of the Book before us were also commanded to rely on visual observation in their fasting and worship, and they interpreted the saying of the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:183] but the People of the Book altered it. And for this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade advancing" ..
We are an unlettered Ummah, we do not use astronomical counting or computation. The month is like this, and this
إنا أمة أمية ، لا نكتب ولا نحسب، الشهر : هكذا وهكذاThe Shaykh : We do not write and we do not write
The reader: We write
The Shaykh : Yes
The reader: "
"We are an unlettered Ummah, we do not use astronomical counting or computation. The month is like this, and this,
قال : إنا أمة أمية لا نكتب ولا نحسب الشهر هكذا وهكذاSo He described this nation by its abandonment of writing and calculation, which other nations do in their times of worship and festivals, and He referred them to visual observation, where He said in a hadith other than this one:
Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break (fast) on sighting it (the new moon)
صوموا لرؤيته وأفطروا لرؤيتهFast from the sighting to the sighting
صوموا من الوضح إلى الوضحAnd this is evidence for what the Muslims have agreed upon—except for some of the later scholars who deviated, who are in opposition to the consensus that preceded them—that the times for fasting, breaking the fast, and the rites of pilgrimage are established by visual observation when possible, not by writing and calculation, which the non-Arabs follow, such as the Romans, the Persians, the Copts, the Indians, and the People of the Book, namely the Jews and the Christians.
It has been narrated from more than one scholar of knowledge that the People of the Book before us were also commanded to rely on visual observation in their fasting and worship, and they interpreted the saying of the Exalted: