Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3462
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أُمِّ قَيْسٍ بِنْتِ مِحْصَنٍ، قَالَتْ دَخَلْتُ بِابْنٍ لِي عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَقَدْ أَعْلَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ فَقَالَ " عَلاَمَ تَدْغَرْنَ أَوْلاَدَكُنَّ بِهَذَا الْعِلاَقِ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ فَإِنَّ فِيهِ سَبْعَةَ أَشْفِيَةٍ يُسْعَطُ بِهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ وَيُلَدُّ بِهِ مِنْ ذَاتِ الْجَنْبِ " . حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ السَّرْحِ الْمِصْرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أُمِّ قَيْسٍ بِنْتِ مِحْصَنٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ بِنَحْوِهِ . قَالَ يُونُسُ أَعْلَقْتُ يَعْنِي غَمَزْتُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ both narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan, who said: I brought a son of mine to the Prophet while I had applied a treatment for al-ʿudhra to him. He said, ‘Why do you press your children with this treatment? Use this Indian costus, for it contains seven remedies. It is administered through the nose for al-ʿudhra, and on one side of the mouth for pleurisy.’
Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarḥ al-Miṣrī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: Yūnus informed us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan, from the Prophet, with similar wording. Yūnus said: ‘I had applied treatment’ means ‘I had pressed [the affected area].’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic calls the remedy العود الهندي, literally ‘Indian wood’; Indian costus is used here as the conventional identification. The source says it has seven remedies but names only two applications in this passage.
Al-ʿudhra and dhāt al-janb are retained as transliterated medical terms in the translation glossed by context as a throat condition and pleurisy; the passage does not give a modern diagnosis.
قَالَتْ دَخَلْتُ بِابْنٍ لِي عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَقَدْ أَعْلَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ فَقَالَ " عَلاَمَ تَدْغَرْنَ أَوْلاَدَكُنَّ بِهَذَا الْعِلاَقِ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ فَإِنَّ فِيهِ سَبْعَةَ أَشْفِيَةٍ يُسْعَطُ بِهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ وَيُلَدُّ بِهِ مِنْ ذَاتِ الْجَنْبِ " .
Al-ʿudhra is a historical throat ailment, and the Arabic gives no modern clinical diagnosis; the instructions specify nasal administration for this condition.
Should al-ʿudhra remain transliterated rather than be equated to tonsillitis or another modern diagnosis?
قَالَتْ دَخَلْتُ بِابْنٍ لِي عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَقَدْ أَعْلَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ فَقَالَ " عَلاَمَ تَدْغَرْنَ أَوْلاَدَكُنَّ بِهَذَا الْعِلاَقِ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ فَإِنَّ فِيهِ سَبْعَةَ أَشْفِيَةٍ يُسْعَطُ بِهِ مِنَ الْعُذْرَةِ وَيُلَدُّ بِهِ مِنْ ذَاتِ الْجَنْبِ " .
عود هندي literally means ‘Indian wood’; Indian costus is the conventional identification in this context, but the Arabic wording itself is not the botanical binomial.
Is Indian costus the intended plant name for العود الهندي here?