Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3467
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ، قَالَ نَعَتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِنْ ذَاتِ الْجَنْبِ وَرْسًا وَقُسْطًا وَزَيْتًا يُلَدُّ بِهِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb narrated to us: Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maymūn narrated to us: My father narrated to me, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: For pleurisy, the Messenger of Allah prescribed wars, costus, and oil, administered by placing it in the side of the mouth.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The medicinal plant name وَرْس is transliterated as wars because the passage does not identify it further. يُلَدُّ بِهِ describes administering medicine into the side of the mouth.
قَالَ نَعَتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِنْ ذَاتِ الْجَنْبِ وَرْسًا وَقُسْطًا وَزَيْتًا يُلَدُّ بِهِ .
وَرْس is a plant-derived medicinal substance; identifying its botanical source more specifically would exceed what this wording establishes.
Should وَرْس be retained as wars or replaced with a conventional botanical identification?