If the sky is clear and only two people report seeing the crescent, applying the clouded-sky two-witness rule without qualification would erase Quduri’s distinction.
His clear-sky clause calls for a sufficiently large group whose testimony establishes knowledge; no fixed number appears in the sentence.
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Kitab al-Sawm: Eid Crescent Sighting and Testimony
If the sky is clear and only two people report seeing the crescent, applying the clouded-sky two-witness rule without qualification would erase Quduri’s distinction.
His clear-sky clause calls for a sufficiently large group whose testimony establishes knowledge; no fixed number appears in the sentence.