Arabic (Original)
قَالَ عَبْد اللَّهِ وَجَدْتُ هَذَيْنِ الْحَدِيثَيْنِ فِي كِتَابِ أَبِي بِخَطِّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا تَقَدَّمُوا الشَّهْرَ يَعْنِي رَمَضَانَ بِيَوْمٍ وَلَا يَوْمَيْنِ إِلَّا أَنْ يُوَافِقَ ذَلِكَ صَوْمًا كَانَ يَصُومُهُ أَحَدُكُمْ صُومُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَأَفْطِرُوا لِرُؤْيَتِهِ فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَعُدُّوا ثَلَاثِينَ ثُمَّ أَفْطِرُوا.
English Translation
Abdullah said: I found these two hadiths in my father's book in his handwriting: Muhammad b. Abdullah al-Ansari told us: Muhammad b. Amr told us, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Do not precede the month - meaning Ramadan - by a day or two, unless it coincides with a fast one of you used to observe. Fast upon sighting it, and break the fast upon sighting it; but if it is obscured from you, then count thirty days, then break the fast."