Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3468
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ السَّرْحِ الْمِصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا يُونُسُ، وَابْنُ، سَمْعَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّ قَيْسٍ بِنْتِ مِحْصَنٍ، قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ - يَعْنِي بِهِ الْكُسْتَ - فَإِنَّ فِيهِ سَبْعَةَ أَشْفِيَةٍ مِنْهَا ذَاتُ الْجَنْبِ " . قَالَ ابْنُ سَمْعَانَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ " فَإِنَّ فِيهِ شِفَاءً مِنْ سَبْعَةِ أَدْوَاءٍ مِنْهَا ذَاتُ الْجَنْبِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Ṭāhir—Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarḥ al-Miṣrī—narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: Yūnus and Ibn Samʿān informed us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from Umm Qays bint Miḥṣan, who said: The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Use Indian costus—for it contains seven remedies, one of which is pleurisy.’
Ibn Samʿān said that the wording in the hadith is: ‘For it contains a cure for seven ailments, one of which is pleurisy.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic explicitly glosses العود الهندي as الكُسْت (costus). The two wordings differ: one says seven remedies; Ibn Samʿān’s wording says a cure for seven ailments.
قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ - يَعْنِي بِهِ الْكُسْتَ - فَإِنَّ فِيهِ سَبْعَةَ أَشْفِيَةٍ مِنْهَا ذَاتُ الْجَنْبِ " .
The main wording calls it ‘seven remedies,’ while Ibn Samʿān’s subsequent wording explicitly says ‘a cure for seven ailments’; both are retained in their respective clauses.
Should the wording difference between seven cures and a cure for seven ailments remain explicit?