Finds Sunan Abi Dawud 1702
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، بِمَعْنَاهُ قَالَ " عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلاً " . وَقَالَ ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ قَالَ فَلاَ أَدْرِي قَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فِي سَنَةٍ أَوْ فِي ثَلاَثِ سِنِينَ .
Translation
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Shu’bah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. The version goes
Musaddad narrated to us, Yahya narrated to us, from Shu'bah, with a similar meaning, who said: "Announce it for a year." He said it three times. He said: I do not know whether he said that to him in one year or in three years.