Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 364
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ رَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مُرَّةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: خَرَجْنَا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم، وَدُعِينَا إِلَى طَعَامٍ فَإِذَا حُسَيْنٌ يَلْعَبُ فِي الطَّرِيقِ، فَأَسْرَعَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَمَامَ الْقَوْمِ، ثُمَّ بَسَطَ يَدَيْهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَمُرُّ مَرَّةً هَا هُنَا وَمَرَّةً هَا هُنَا، يُضَاحِكُهُ حَتَّى أَخَذَهُ، فَجَعَلَ إِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ فِي ذَقْنِهِ وَالأُخْرَى فِي رَأْسِهِ، ثُمَّ اعْتَنَقَهُ فَقَبَّلَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: حُسَيْنٌ مِنِّي وَأَنَا مِنْهُ، أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ أَحَبَّ الْحَسَنَ وَالْحُسَيْنَ، سَبِطَانِ مِنَ الأَسْبَاطِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ya‘la ibn Murra said: We went out with the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and were invited to a meal. Husayn was playing in the road, so the Prophet hurried ahead of the people and spread out his arms. The boy ran this way and that as the Prophet made him laugh, until he caught him. He placed one hand under Husayn’s chin and the other on his head, embraced him, and kissed him. Then the Prophet said: Husayn is from me and I am from him. May Allah love whoever loves al-Hasan and al-Husayn; they are two grandsons among the grandsons.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source explicitly says the Prophet embraced and kissed Husayn. The closing expression سِبْطَانِ مِنَ الأَسْبَاطِ is rendered literally as ‘two grandsons among the grandsons’; its exact nuance is flagged for review.
سَبِطَانِ مِنَ الأَسْبَاطِ.
The phrase literally describes the two as ‘two sibts among the asbat’; the supplied witness renders this ‘two of my distinguished descendants.’
Would an editor prefer ‘two grandsons among the grandsons’ or the witness’s broader ‘distinguished descendants’ for this phrase?