The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah—we do not know it in this form except from the ḥadīth of Abū Muʿāwiyah. The correct version is what has been narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "Do not precede the month of Ramaḍān by a day or two days."

And likewise it was narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, similar to the ḥadīth of Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Laythī.(1)

‌‌5 - Chapter: What has been reported that fasting is upon sighting the crescent, and breaking the fast is upon sighting it

696 - Qutaybah narrated to us, he said: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from ʿIkrimah
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= "one of you."

Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim also narrated it in "Kitāb al-Ṣawm" as found in "Sharḥ al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī ʿalā Sunan al-Tirmidhī," and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (8238) via the path of Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from him. And Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid is weak.

In this chapter, there is also a ḥadīth from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj reported by al-Dāraquṭnī 2/163, and in its chain is al-Wāqidī, who is abandoned (matrūk).

(1) The author's statement: "The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah—we do not know it in this form... etc."—it seems he thought that Abū Muʿāwiyah erred in it. The reason for this is that the author did not come across the full version of the ḥadīth as al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned it, and from his path al-Bayhaqī, which we have clarified during the takhrīj. The wording of Abū Muʿāwiyah's ḥadīth does not contradict the wording of others who narrated it from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Laythī. At most, he added at its beginning: "Count the crescent of Shaʿbān for Ramaḍān," and this addition was not unique to Abū Muʿāwiyah; rather, Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid followed him in it, but he is weak as we have mentioned.