Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1696
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَكِيمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ: " لاَ يَمْنَعَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ أَذَانُ بِلاَلٍ مِنْ سُحُورِهِ. فَإِنَّهُ يُؤَذِّنُ لِيَنْتَبِهَ نَائِمُكُمْ، وَلِيَرْجِعَ قَائِمُكُمْ. وَلَيْسَ الْفَجْرُ أَنْ يَقُولَ هَكَذَا. وَلَكِنْ هَكَذَا، يَعْتَرِضُ فِي أُفُقِ السَّمَاءِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yahya ibn Hakim narrated to us; Yahya ibn Sa‘id and Ibn Abi Adi narrated to us, from Sulayman al-Taymi, from Abu Uthman al-Nahdi, from Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Let none of you be prevented from his pre-dawn meal by Bilal’s call to prayer. He gives the call so that the sleeper among you may wake and the one of you who is up in prayer may return. Dawn is not when it appears like this; rather, it is like this, stretching across the horizon of the sky.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The repeated ‘like this’ follows the source’s demonstrative wording; the gestures it may accompany are not described in the text.