Rereading the Hadith From the Perspective of Observing the Crescent

While evaluating the hadith, it is necessary to consider things such as understanding the prophet’s intention, the reasons why those things are told, understanding the literary elegance used such as ‘parables, comparisons and metaphors’, also it is necessary to investigate all the prophet’s sayings together as a whole and last but the most importantly evaluating all the sayings from the quran’s perspective. after having utilized all of the above techniques, extra effort must be used for the application of the sayings to current situations. the above principles must be used while evaluating the hadith about observation of the crescent and determining the exact times of the ramadhan and the eids, all of the versus and the hadith must be reconsidered all together as a whole in identifying the best method for determining the exact start and finish times of the ramadhan and eid.