Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 2943

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ الأَحْوَلُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَرْجِسَ، قَالَ رَأَيْتُ الأُصَيْلِعَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يُقَبِّلُ الْحَجَرَ وَيَقُولُ إِنِّي لأُقَبِّلُكَ وَإِنِّي لأَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ حَجَرٌ لاَ تَضُرُّ وَلاَ تَنْفَعُ وَلَوْلاَ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يُقَبِّلُكَ مَا قَبَّلْتُكَ ‏.‏

Translation

Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, both saying: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us: ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sarjis, who said: I saw the bald-fronted ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb kiss the Black Stone and say: “I am kissing you, though I know you are a stone that neither harms nor benefits. Had I not seen the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, kiss you, I would not have kissed you.”