Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3414
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّوَارِبِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي بِشْرٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ، قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ عَنِ الشُّرْبِ فِي آنِيَةِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَقَالَ " هِيَ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ لَكُمْ فِي الآخِرَةِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Hudhayfah reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade drinking from vessels of gold and silver. He said, ‘They are for them in this world, and they are for you in the Hereafter.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The pronouns ‘they’ and ‘them’ follow the source wording; the report does not identify their referents explicitly.
قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ عَنِ الشُّرْبِ فِي آنِيَةِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَقَالَ " هِيَ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ لَكُمْ فِي الآخِرَةِ " .
The statement ‘they are for them in this world and for you in the Hereafter’ does not explicitly identify who ‘they’ and ‘them’ refer to.
Do the pronouns refer to the gold and silver vessels and to different communities in this world and the Hereafter?