Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month may consist of twenty-nine nights. So do not fast till you have sighted it (the new moon) and do not break it till you have sighted it, except when the sky is cloudy for you, and if it is so, then calculate it.

Ibn 'Umar (RA) (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month is thus and thus and thus (i. e. pointing with his fingers thrice), and he held back his thumb at the third time (in order to show that it can also consist of twenty-nine days).

Ibn 'Umar (RA) (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month may consist of twenty-nine days.

Abdullah bin 'Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month (of Ramadan) is thus and thus, and thus. i. e. ten, ten and-nine.

Ibn 'Umar (RA) (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month is thus, and thus, and thus, and he flapped his hands with all their fingers twice, but at the third turn, folded his right thumb or left thumb (in order to give an idea of twenty-nine).

Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month (of Ramadan) may consist of twenty nine days, and Shu'bah (one of the narrators) (gave a practical demonstration how the Holy prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) explained to them) by unfolding his hands thrice and folding his thumb at the third turn. 'Uqba (one of the narrators in this chain of transmitters) said: I think that he said that the month consists of thirty days and unfolded his palm three times.

Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: We are an unlettered people who can neither write nor count. The month is thus, and thus folding his thumb when he said it the third time.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Aswad bin Qais with the same chain of transmitters, but herein no mention has been made of the other month (consisting of) thirty days.

Sa'd bin 'Ubaida reported that Ibn'Umar (Allah be pleased with both of them) heard a person saying: This night is the midnight (of the month). Upon this he said to him: How do you know that it is the midnight (of the month), for I heard the Mes- senger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: The month is thus and thus (and he pointed with his ten fingers twice) and thus (i. e. at the third time he pointed with all his fingers but withdrew or folded his thumb)?

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Whenever you sight the new moon (of the month of Ramadan) observe fast. and when you sight it (the new moon of Shawwal) break it, and if the sky is cloudy for you, then observe fast for thirty days.