With all the confusion twice a year concerning the Eid celebrations, this section is extremely necessary.
The following are traditions of our Holy Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) concerning this issue and are offered as a basis of the many "proofs" for local moonsighting, which is believed to be the Sunnah of our Prophet (saw).
Each of the articles below are in support of local moonsighting and the arguments contained therein are very strong if not irrefutable. If you seriously are looking for answers, do not be discouraged by the length of a few of these articles, as they will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the validity of local moonsighting over any other method.
From Muslim @Book 6, Number 2391: Kuraib reported that Umm Fadl, daughter of Harith, sent him (Fadl, i. e. her son) to Mu'awiya in Syria. I (Fadl) arrived in Syria, and did the needful for her. It was there in Syria that the month of Ramadan commenced. I saw the new moon (of Ramadan) on Friday. I then came back to Medina at the end of the month. Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) asked me (about the new moon of Ramadan) and said: When did you see it? I said: We saw it on the night of Friday. He said: (Did) you see it yourself? -I said: Yes, and the people also saw it and they observed fast and Mu'awiya also observed fast, whereupon he said: But we saw it on Saturday night. So we would continue to observe fast till we complete thirty (fasts) or we see it (the new moon of Shawwal). I said: Is the sighting of the moon by Mu'awiya not valid for you? He said: No; this is how the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) has commanded us. Yahya ibn Yahya was in doubt (whether the word used in the narration by Kuraib) was Naktafi or Taktafi. From Muslim @Book 6, Number 2392: Abu'l-Bakhtari reported: We went out to perform Umra and when we encamped in the valley of Nakhla, we tried to see the new moon. Some of the people said: It was three nights old, and others (said) that it was two nights old. We then met Ibn 'Abbas and told him we had seen the new moon, but that some of the people said it was three nights old and others that it was two nights old. He asked on which night we had seen it; and when we told him we had seen it on such and such night, he said the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him) had said: Verily Allah deferred it till the time it is seen, so it is to be reckoned from the night you saw it.
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