Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 577
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، سَمِعْتُ أَبَا إِسْحَاقَ، سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَةَ بْنَ حَزْنٍ يَقُولُ: تَفَاخَرَ أَهْلُ الإِبِلِ وَأَصْحَابُ الشَّاءِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: بُعِثَ مُوسَى وَهُوَ رَاعِي غَنَمٍ، وَبُعِثَ دَاوُدُ وَهُوَ رَاعٍ، وَبُعِثْتُ أَنَا وَأَنَا أَرْعَى غَنَمًا لأَهْلِي بِأَجْيَادِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Bashshar related to us: Muhammad ibn Ja‘far related to us: Shu‘bah related to us. I heard Abu Ishaq say: I heard ‘Abdah ibn Hazn say: The people who owned camels and the people who owned sheep vied in boasting. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Musa was sent as a shepherd of sheep; Dawud was sent as a shepherd; and I was sent while I was tending my family’s sheep at Ajyad.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic names Ajyad as the location where the Prophet tended his family’s sheep.