Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 55, Hadith 14
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عُمَارَةُ بْنُ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الطُّفَيْلِ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقْسِمُ لَحْمًا بِالْجِعْرَانَةِ، وَأَنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ غُلاَمٌ أَحْمِلُ عُضْوَ الْبَعِيرِ، فَأَتَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ، فَبَسَطَ لَهَا رِدَاءَهُ، قُلْتُ: مَنْ هَذِهِ؟ قَالَ: هَذِهِ أُمُّهُ الَّتِي أَرْضَعَتْهُ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu ‘Asim related to us, from Ja‘far ibn Yahya ibn Thawban, who said: ‘Umarah ibn Thawban related to me: Abu al-Tufayl related to me: I saw the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, distributing meat at al-Ji‘ranah. At the time I was a boy carrying a camel’s limb. A woman came to him, and he spread his cloak for her. I asked, “Who is this?” He said: “This is his mother, who suckled him.”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The woman is identified as the Prophet’s foster mother, the woman who nursed him; the Arabic does not name her in this report.