حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَی عَنْ شُعْبَةَ بِمَعْنَاهُ قَالَ عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلًا وَقَالَ ثَلَاثَ مِرَارٍ قَالَ فَلَا أَدْرِي قَالَ لَهُ ذَلِکَ فِي سَنَةٍ أَوْ فِي ثَلَاثِ سِنِينَ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 1702
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Shubah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. The version goes: He said: Make it known for a year. He said this three times. He said: I do not know whether he said “for a year” or “for three years”.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020
