Volume 3 Book 31 Hadith 137 Book 31, Volume 3 Volume 3, Book 31, Number 137: Narrated Ibn ‘Umar: The Prophet said, “We are an illiterate nation; we neither write, nor know accounts. The month is like this and this, i.e. sometimes of 29 days and sometimes of thirty days.” Narrated: Ibn 'Umar