Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنِي نُعَيْمُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ أَبُو طَلْحَةَ الْأَنْمَارِيُّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ النُّعْمَانَ بْنَ بَشِيرٍ يَقُولُ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ حِمْصَ قُمْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْلَةَ ثَلَاثٍ وَعِشْرِينَ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ إِلَى ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ الْأَوَّلِ ثُمَّ قُمْنَا مَعَهُ لَيْلَةَ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ إِلَى نِصْفِ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ قَامَ بِنَا لَيْلَةَ سَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ حَتَّى ظَنَنَّا أَنْ لَا نُدْرِكَ الْفَلَاحَ قَالَ وَكُنَّا نَدْعُو السُّحُورَ الْفَلَاحَ فَأَمَّا نَحْنُ فَنَقُولُ لَيْلَةُ السَّابِعَةِ لَيْلَةُ سَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَأَنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ لَيْلَةُ ثَلَاثٍ وَعِشْرِينَ السَّابِعَةُ فَمَنْ أَصَوْبُ نَحْنُ أَوْ أَنْتُمْ.
English Translation
Zayd b. al-Hubab told us: Mu'awiya b. Salih told us: Nu'aym b. Ziyad, Abu Talha al-Anmari, told me that he heard al-Nu'man b. Bashir say, on the pulpit of Hims: We stood in prayer with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, on the night of the twenty-third of Ramadan until the first third of the night; then we stood with him on the night of the twenty-fifth until the middle of the night; then he stood with us on the night of the twenty-seventh until we thought we would not catch the falah - he said: we used to call the pre-dawn meal 'falah.' As for us, we say the seventh night is the twenty-seventh, while you say the seventh is the twenty-third - so which of us is more correct, we or you?