Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 55, Hadith 12
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ: الْخِتَانُ، وَحَلْقُ الْعَانَةِ، وَتَقْلِيمُ الأَظْفَارِ، وَنَتْفُ الضَّبْعِ، وَقَصُّ الشَّارِبِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musaddad related to us: Yazid ibn Zuray‘ related to us: ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq related to us: Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi related to me, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace: ‘Five practices belong to the fitrah: circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, clipping the nails, plucking the underarm hair, and trimming the moustache.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic in this block reads نتف الضبع; the English witness interprets this as plucking the armpit hair, which is the conventional list item but differs from the literal word in this source.
وَنَتْفُ الضَّبْعِ،
The Arabic reads الضبع rather than the expected الإبط; the witness supplies the conventional “armpit” sense.
Is الضبع a textual variant or corruption for الإبط in this report?