13/8. Chapter:
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan 660 — The Book of As-Siyâm (the Fasting)
The timing of Saum (fast) begins with the dawn, and one is allowed to eat and drink till dawn, and the explanation of the dawn that marks the legal beginning of a Saum and about the beginning of the time of the Fajr (morning) prayer etc.
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan : 660
Al-Lu'lu Wal-MarjanHadith Number 660
حديث عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ رضي الله عنها، قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ (حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ) عَمَدْتُ إِلَى عِقَالٍ أَسْوَدَ، وَإِلَى عِقَالٍ أَبْيَضَ، فَجَعَلْتُهُمَا تَحْتَ وِسَادَتِي، فَجَعَلْتُ أَنْظُرُ فِي اللَّيْلِ فَلَا يَسْتَبِينُ لِي، فَغَدَوْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَذَكَرْتُ لَهُ ذلِكَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّمَا ذلِكَ سَوَادُ اللَّيْلِ وَبَيَاضُ النَّهَارِ.
`Adi bin Hatim Narrated from:
When the Verses were revealed: 'Until the white thread appears to you, distinct from the black thread,' I took two (hair) strings, one black and the other white, and kept them under my pillow and went on looking at them throughout the night but could not make anything out of it. So, the next morning I went to Allâh's Messenger ﷺ and told him the whole story. He explained to me, "That Verse means the darkness of night and the whiteness of dawn." (Sahîh Al-Bukhâri, Hadîth No. 140, Vol. 3)
