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Sunan Ibn Majah 3555

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Sunan Ibn Majah 3555
Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ، أَنَّ امْرَأَةً، جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بِبُرْدَةٍ - قَالَ وَمَا الْبُرْدَةُ قَالَ الشَّمْلَةُ - قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي نَسَجْتُ هَذِهِ بِيَدِي لأَكْسُوَكَهَا ‏.‏ فَأَخَذَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مُحْتَاجًا إِلَيْهَا فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا فِيهَا وَإِنَّهَا لإِزَارُهُ فَجَاءَ فُلاَنُ بْنُ فُلاَنٍ - رَجُلٌ سَمَّاهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ - فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَ هَذِهِ الْبُرْدَةَ اكْسُنِيهَا ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ نَعَمْ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ طَوَاهَا وَأَرْسَلَ بِهَا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ الْقَوْمُ وَاللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنْتَ كُسِيَهَا النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مُحْتَاجًا إِلَيْهَا ثُمَّ سَأَلْتَهُ إِيَّاهَا وَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهُ لاَ يَرُدُّ سَائِلاً ‏.‏ فَقَالَ إِنِّي وَاللَّهِ مَا سَأَلْتُهُ إِيَّاهَا لأَلْبَسَهَا وَلَكِنْ سَأَلْتُهُ إِيَّاهَا لِتَكُونَ كَفَنِي ‏.‏ فَقَالَ سَهْلٌ فَكَانَتْ كَفَنَهُ يَوْمَ مَاتَ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim narrated to us, from his father, from Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī, that a woman came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with a burdah. (He asked, “What is a burdah?” He replied, “A shawl.”) She said, “Messenger of Allah, I wove this with my own hands so that I might clothe you with it.” The Messenger of Allah took it, as he needed it, and came out to us wearing it as his waist wrap. Then so-and-so son of so-and-so—a man whose name he mentioned that day—came and said, “Messenger of Allah, how beautiful this burdah is! Clothe me with it.” He replied, “Yes.”

When he went inside, he folded it and sent it to him. The people said to him, “By Allah, you did not do well: the Prophet wore it because he needed it, and then you asked him for it, though you knew that he does not turn away anyone who asks him.” He said, “By Allah, I did not ask him for it in order to wear it; rather, I asked him for it so that it might be my shroud.” Sahl said: It was his shroud on the day he died.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed

  • The garment is called a burdah in the report, with the narrator clarifying it as a shawl (shamlah). The requester is left as ‘so-and-so son of so-and-so’; although the narrator says he named the man that day, the name is not present in this text.

  • جَاءَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بِبُرْدَةٍ - قَالَ وَمَا الْبُرْدَةُ قَالَ الشَّمْلَةُ - قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي نَسَجْتُ هَذِهِ بِيَدِي لأَكْسُوَكَهَا ‏.

    The report itself glosses burdah as shamlah; the English garment names do not map to a single precise modern garment term.

    Does ‘burdah … a shawl’ preserve both the named garment and the narrator’s clarification?

  • ‏ فَأَخَذَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مُحْتَاجًا إِلَيْهَا فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا فِيهَا وَإِنَّهَا لإِزَارُهُ فَجَاءَ فُلاَنُ بْنُ فُلاَنٍ - رَجُلٌ سَمَّاهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ - فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَ هَذِهِ الْبُرْدَةَ اكْسُنِيهَا ‏.

    The Arabic says the man’s name was mentioned that day but supplies only ‘so-and-so son of so-and-so’ in this text.

    Should the placeholder be retained rather than inferred from another version?