وَإِنْ كَانَتْ بِالسَّمَاءِ عِلَّةٌ: لَمْ تُقْبَلْ فِي هِلَالِ الْفِطْرِ إِلَّا شَهَادَةُ رَجُلَيْنِ، أَوْ رَجُلٍ وَامْرَأَتَيْنِ.
Translation: If there is an obstruction in the sky, testimony for the Eid crescent is accepted only from two men, or from one man and two women.
ʿIllah here refers to an obstruction that makes crescent-sighting difficult. With such an obstruction, Quduri specifies two accepted configurations: two male witnesses, or one male witness together with two female witnesses.
These are the classical Hanafi testimony configurations for this particular legal issue; a single report does not fulfil them.