Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَبِيدَةُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنِي الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْقُرَشِيِّ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَهُمْ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنَّا أُمَّةٌ أُمِّيَّةٌ لَا نَحْسُبُ وَلَا نَكْتُبُ وَإِنَّ الشَّهْرَ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا ثُمَّ نَقَصَ وَاحِدَةً فِي الثَّالِثَةِ.
English Translation
Abidah ibn Humayd told us: al-Aswad ibn Qays told me, from Sa'id ibn Amr al-Qurashi, that Abdullah ibn Umar related to them from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that he said: 'We are an unlettered nation; we neither calculate nor write, and the month is thus, and thus, and thus' - then he withdrew one (finger) in the third (gesture).