Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3562
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى، عَنْ شَيْبَانَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ قَالَ لِي يَا بُنَىَّ لَوْ شَهِدْتَنَا وَنَحْنُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ إِذَا أَصَابَتْنَا السَّمَاءُ لَحَسِبْتَ أَنَّ رِيحَنَا رِيحُ الضَّأْنِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā narrated to us, from Shaybān, from Qatādah, from Abū Burdah, from his father, who said to me: “My son, had you seen us when we were with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when rain fell on us, you would have thought that our smell was the smell of sheep.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic gives the comparison to the smell of sheep directly, without further explaining the cause of the smell.