Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 937
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلامٍ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَخْلَدٌ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَهُ يَقُولُ: عَطَسَ ابْنٌ لِعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، إِمَّا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَإِمَّا عُمَرُ، فَقَالَ: آبَّ، فَقَالَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ: وَمَا آبَّ؟ إِنَّ آبَّ اسْمُ شَيْطَانٍ مِنَ الشَّيَاطِينِ جَعَلَهَا بَيْنَ الْعَطْسَةِ وَالْحَمْدِ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Sallam related to us, saying: Makhlad informed us, saying: Ibn Jurayj informed us: Ibn Abi Najih informed me, from Mujahid, who said he heard him say: A son of ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar sneezed—either Abu Bakr or ‘Umar—and said: “Abb!” Ibn ‘Umar said: “What is ‘Abb’? ‘Abb is the name of one of the devils, which he puts between the sneeze and the praise [of Allah].”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The utterance آبَّ is retained phonetically because the report treats it as a specific word.