Sunan Abi Dawud

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

Musaddad narrated to us; Yahya narrated to us, from Shubah, with a similar report. He said: Announce it for a year. He said it three times. The narrator said: I do not know whether he told him that to mean one year or three years.