Hadith 1947
حَدَّثَنَا
مُسَدَّدٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا
إِسْمَاعِيلُ ، حَدَّثَنَا
أَيُّوبُ ، عَنْ
مُحَمَّدٍ ، عَنْ
أَبِي بَكْرَةَ ، أَنّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ خَطَبَ فِي حَجَّتِهِ ، فَقَالَ : " إِنَّ الزَّمَانَ قَدِ اسْتَدَارَ كَهَيْئَتِهِ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ ، السَّنَةُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا ، مِنْهَا أَرْبَعَةٌ حُرُمٌ : ثَلَاثٌ مُتَوَالِيَاتٌ : ذُو الْقِعْدَةِ وَذُو الْحِجَّةِ وَالْمُحَرَّمُ وَرَجَبُ مُضَرَ الَّذِي بَيْنَ جُمَادَى وَشَعْبَانَ " .
Narrated Abu Bakrah: The Prophet ﷺ gave a sermon during his hajj and said: Time has completed a cycle and assumed the form of the day when Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year contains twelve months of which four are sacred, three of them consecutive, viz. Dhul-Qa'dah, Dhul-Hijjah and Muharram and also Rajab of Mudar which comes between Jumadah and Sha'ban.
Hadith 1948
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Bakrah through a different chain of narrators. Abu Dawud said: Ibn 'Awn has mentioned his (Abu Bakrah's) name and narrated this tradition: From Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Bakrah on the authority of Abu Bakrah.