English Translation

Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us, from Sufyan: Asim narrated to me, from Zirr, who said: I said to Ubayy, "Tell me about the Night of Decree, for the son of Umm Abd used to say, 'Whoever stands in prayer the whole year will attain it.'" He said: "May Allah have mercy on Abu Abd al-Rahman. He indeed knew that it is in Ramadan, and that it falls on the twenty-seventh, but he obscured it from the people so that they would not rely solely on it. By Allah who sent down the Book upon Muhammad, it is in Ramadan, the night of the twenty-seventh." I said, "O Abu al-Mundhir, how did you come to know it?" He said: "By the sign which the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, informed us of, so we counted and we memorized it. By Allah, it is indeed that very night, without exception." I said to Zirr, "What is the sign?" He said: "That the sun rises that morning as if it were a basin, having no rays."