Hadith 2

Sunan Abi Da'ud

Book 10: The Book of Lost and Found Items Sahih

Chapter 567

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Sahih
Sunan Abi Dawud 1702
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، بِمَعْنَاهُ قَالَ ‏ ‏ ‏.‏ وَقَالَ ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ قَالَ فَلاَ أَدْرِي قَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فِي سَنَةٍ أَوْ فِي ثَلاَثِ سِنِينَ ‏.‏
"‏ عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلاً ‏"
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Shu’bah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. The version goes :

He said : Make it known for a year. He said this three times. He said: I do not know whether he said “for a year” or “for three years”.