Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3432
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ وَهُوَ يُحَوِّلُ الْمَاءَ فِي حَائِطِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " إِنْ كَانَ عِنْدَكَ مَاءٌ بَاتَ فِي شَنٍّ فَاسْقِنَا وَإِلاَّ كَرَعْنَا " . قَالَ عِنْدِي مَاءٌ بَاتَ فِي شَنٍّ . فَانْطَلَقَ وَانْطَلَقْنَا مَعَهُ إِلَى الْعَرِيشِ فَحَلَبَ لَهُ شَاةً عَلَى مَاءٍ بَاتَ فِي شَنٍّ فَشَرِبَ ثُمَّ فَعَلَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ بِصَاحِبِهِ الَّذِي مَعَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ visited an Anṣārī man who was directing water around his garden. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, ‘If you have water that spent the night in a waterskin, give us some to drink; otherwise, we will drink directly from the water.’ The man said, ‘I have water that spent the night in a waterskin.’ He went off, and we went with him to the shelter. He milked a sheep for the Prophet ﷺ into the water that had spent the night in a waterskin. The Prophet ﷺ drank, then he did the same for his companion who was with him.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The verb karaʿnā refers to drinking directly from a water source, without using a vessel.
The phrase about milking a sheep ‘over’ the water is rendered as milking into the water; it may describe diluting the milk, though the report does not explicitly explain the preparation.
The setting term al-ʿarīsh refers to a shelter or shaded structure; its exact form is not specified.
قَالَ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ وَهُوَ يُحَوِّلُ الْمَاءَ فِي حَائِطِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " إِنْ كَانَ عِنْدَكَ مَاءٌ بَاتَ فِي شَنٍّ فَاسْقِنَا وَإِلاَّ كَرَعْنَا " .
Karaʿnā means drinking directly from a water source, but the report does not specify what source or posture is intended.
Does karaʿnā here mean drinking directly from the garden water source?
فَانْطَلَقَ وَانْطَلَقْنَا مَعَهُ إِلَى الْعَرِيشِ فَحَلَبَ لَهُ شَاةً عَلَى مَاءٍ بَاتَ فِي شَنٍّ فَشَرِبَ ثُمَّ فَعَلَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ بِصَاحِبِهِ الَّذِي مَعَهُ .
The phrase says that a sheep was milked ‘over’ water kept overnight in a waterskin; it may describe mixing milk with that water, but the method is not explicit.
Was the sheep milked into the stored water so that the milk was diluted?