Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1657
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " الشَّهْرُ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا " . وَعَقَدَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Bishr narrated to us, from Isma‘il ibn Abi Khalid, from Muhammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘A month is like this, and like this, and like this.’ On the third, he indicated twenty-nine.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final clause states the number and its place in the sequence; it does not name the gesture’s object.