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Sahih Bukhari 5201 — When a Month Has 29 Days
"Men are protectors and maintainers of women."
Hadith About the Month Being 29 Days and Keeping an Oath
Sahih Bukhari : 5201
Sahih BukhariHadith Number 5201
حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدٌ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ آلَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ نِسَائِهِ شَهْرًا وَقَعَدَ فِي مَشْرُبَةٍ لَهُ فَنَزَلَ لِتِسْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ آلَيْتَ عَلَى شَهْرٍ. قَالَ " إِنَّ الشَّهْرَ تِسْعٌ وَعِشْرُونَ ".
Anas Narrated from:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took an oath that he would not visit his wives for one month, and he sat in an upper room belonging to him. Then, on the twenty ninth day he came down. It was said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! You had taken an oath not to visit your wives for one month." He said, "The (present) month is of twenty-nine days."
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 5201In-book reference : Book 67, Hadith 135USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 7, Book 62, Hadith 129
Summary of Sahih Bukhari Hadith 5201
This hadith about the month being 29 days explains a simple point from the Prophet’s (صلى الله عليه وسلم) own action. He had taken an oath that he would not visit his wives for one month. He stayed in an upper room, then came down on the twenty-ninth day. When people reminded him that his oath was for a month, he answered that the present month was twenty-nine days. The teaching is plain: a month in this setting was counted by the lunar month, and a lunar month can end at twenty-nine days. The hadith is not adding extra details about the cause of the oath. It focuses on how the month was counted and understood.
What we learn from this hadith
- A lunar month can be twenty-nine days.
- Questions about an action can be answered with clear teaching.
- The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم explained the meaning of the month in a practical way.
- The report focuses on the count of the month, not on extra details.
