It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic: "And the moon split" [Surah al-Qamar: 1] , that he said: "I saw the moon when it had split, and I saw the mountain between the two halves of the moon (in the gap between them)." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs did not record it with this wording.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: In Makkah, before the emigration of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), I saw the moon split into two pieces twice; one piece was over the mountain of Abu Qubays and the other over al-Suwayda'. The people said: The moon has been bewitched. Thereupon this verse was revealed: "The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split" [Surah al-Qamar: 1] . Allah Almighty says: Just as you saw the moon split, likewise the news I have given you about the nearness of the Hour is also true. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it with this wording; they only agreed upon the abridged narration of Abu Ma'mar from Abdullah. This is a hadith for which we need the corroborating narrations of the Companions supporting one another, in order to refute the heretics, because it is among the great miracles of the Shariah. So I searched and found, on this subject, narrations of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas, Abdullah bin Amr and Jubayr bin Mut'im (may Allah be pleased with them) which the two Shaykhs did not record; they only recorded the hadith of Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him).