Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 53, Hadith 6
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَتْنَا عَجُوزٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ جَدَّةُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ غُرَابٍ قَالَتْ: حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ الْمُهَاجِرِ قَالَتْ: سُبِيتُ وَجَوَارِي مِنَ الرُّومِ، فَعَرَضَ عَلَيْنَا عُثْمَانُ الإِسْلاَمَ، فَلَمْ يُسْلِمْ مِنَّا غَيْرِي وَغَيْرُ أُخْرَى، فَقَالَ: اخْفِضُوهُمَا، وَطَهِّرُوهُمَا فَكُنْتُ أَخْدُمُ عُثْمَانَ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musa related to us: ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn Ziyad related to us: An elderly woman from Kufa, the grandmother of ‘Ali ibn Ghurab, related to us. She said: Umm al-Muhajir related to me, saying: I was captured along with some Byzantine girls. ‘Uthman presented Islam to us, but only I and another girl accepted Islam. He said: ‘Have the two of them circumcised and purified.’ I used to serve ‘Uthman.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
This is a variant of the earlier report about Umm al-Muhajir; this source includes the closing statement that she served ‘Uthman.
The source again uses the female-specific term خفض, rendered descriptively.
اخْفِضُوهُمَا، وَطَهِّرُوهُمَا
The source uses the historical gender-specific term خفض, conventionally rendered female circumcision.
Should a translator’s note retain the specialized historical term?