Layatul Qadr, Sab e Qadr can be on even nights

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*Laylatul Qadr ‘can possibly be’ on the last EVEN nights if the month of Ramadaan  happens to be of 30 days 

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Shaikhul Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله states (after being asked about Lailatul Qadr):

”Alhamdullillah lailatul Qadr is in the last ten nights of the month of ramadhān, this is how it has authentically occurred from the messenger – (ﷺ ) that he said:

“It is in the last ten days of Ramadhān” and it is in the odd nights.

The odd nights though are viewed in respect to that which has passed (from the month), thus one seeks out the 21st and the 23rd and the 25th and the 27th and the 29th.

It is also sought from a point of view of what remains (from the month). 

Just as the Prophet – Sallallahu alaihi Was salam) said in the Hadīth of Abu Bakarah (Radhiyallahu anhu):-

“(seek it) on the ninth of the nights remaining of ramadhān, the seventh of the nights remaining of Ramadhān, the fifth of the nights remaining of ramadhān, the third of the nights remaining of Ramadan.”

Sh Naasir al-Albaani graded the Hadith as authentic.

Based upon this if it is a 30 day month, then that will occur on even nights, and the 22nd night will be the 9th of the nights remaining from ramadhān, the 24th will be the 7th of the nights remaining from ramadhān (and so on). 

This is how Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudhri explained it in an authentic hadīth. 

And thus the Prophet (ﷺ ) established the month in this way.

If (however) the month is of 29 days, (as lunar months often are) then the remaining days (as it relates to them falling on odd or even nights) will be the same as the past days.

Meaning whichever way one looks at it on a 29 day month, the odd nights in respect to looking at the month from the beginning will start from the 21st and considering the second hadīth - counting down - the ninth night will also fall on the 21st and eight will be on the 22nd and so on.

Therefore if this is the case it is befitting that the believer seeks it out in all of the (nights of the) last ten..”

(Majmoo’ul Fatāwā 25/284-285)

Thus according to this last hadīth and explanation of Shaikhul Islām it is as though one is counting the last nine nights down from the 22nd in a 30 day month or the 21st in a 29 day month.

And Allah knows best…